Saro Saryan - Nagorny Karabakh belonged to Armenia before the 1917 Revolution...

Nagorny Karabakh belonged to Armenia before the 1917 Revolution.
Nagorny Karabakh was part of Armenia from the first century AD to 1923.
Nagorny Karabakh was part of Greater Armenia but in 1921 it was attached to Muslim Azerbaijan by Stalin.
After the declaration of Soviet power in Armenia, Azerbaijan decreed that Nagorny Karabakh should be part of Armenia, but shortly afterwards it changed its position and called for the transfer of the region, which was reversed at Stalin's insistence on July 5, 1921.
Nagorny Karabakh has been ruled from Baku since 1922 or 1923, when Lenin transferred it to Muslim Azerbaijan.
Frequent use of words like “re-unification” with and “return” of Nagorny Karabakh to Armenia.

The Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict through the prism of the British media and The New York Times,...

(2015). The Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict through the prism of the British media and The New York Times, 1988–1994. Caucasus Survey: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 150-169. doi: 10.1080/23761199.2015.1048065

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