Stepanakert
Stepanakert (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտ) or Khankendi (Azerbaijani: Xankəndi) is a city in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, legally in Azerbaijan, but militarily controlled by the Armenian forces as the capital city of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh Republic). The city has about 40,000 ethnic Armenians. The entire Azerbaijani population left the city during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and it is currently populated fully by Armenians.
Stepanakert / Khankendi
Ստեփանակերտ Xankəndi | |
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City | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Stepanakert / Khankendi Location of Stepanakert in Azerbaijan. | |
| Coordinates: 39°48′55″N 46°45′7″E | |
| Country Unrecognized country | Azerbaijan (de jure) Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de facto) |
| Province | Stepanakert (city) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Souren Grigoryan |
| Elevation | 813 m (2,670 ft) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
| • Total | 53,000 |
| Website | www |
Notable natives
- André - Armenian singer
- Armen Abaghian - academic
- Vladimir Arzumanyan - Armenian singer, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
- Don Askarian - filmmaker
- Samvel Babayan - general
- Zori Balayan - writer
- Robert Kocharyan - Second President of Armenia
- Fakhraddin Manafov - actor
- Serzh Sargsyan - Third President of Armenia, incumbent
- Nikolay Yenikolopov (Yenikolopyan) - academic
References
- Results of 2005 census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. p. 47.
Other websites
- Nagorno-Karabakh Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Nagorno-Karabakh's website
- Karabakh’s Election Conundrum November 2005 article about elections for seats in the Milli Mejlis (Azerbaijani parliament) for Azeri refugees
- Stepanakert Armeniapedia article
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