Armenians say the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh – which they call Artsakh – is a historic blow.
Outside the modern country of Armenia itself, the mountainous land was one of the only surviving parts of a heartland that centuries ago stretched across what is now eastern Turkey, into the Caucasus region and western Iran.
AP News · Nagorno-Karabakh: The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian diaspora