The end of Nagorno-Karabakh
A 24-hour offensive ends a self-declared republic, and almost its entire population leaves in a week.
- When
- —
- Duration
- 12 days
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
- Where
- Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh · 39.8177° N, 46.7528° E
Azerbaijan took the enclave on 19 September 2023 after a nine-month blockade of the Lachin corridor. Within a week more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians — essentially the whole population — had left for Armenia, and the Republic of Artsakh dissolved itself. It closed a conflict that had run since 1988 and emptied a region Armenians had inhabited for two millennia.