Stepanakert
city in Nagorno-Karabakh
Stepanakert (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտ) or Khankendi (Azerbaijani: Xankəndi) )is a city in Nagorno-Karabakh, legally in Azerbaijan, but militarily controlled by Armenians as the capital city of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh. The city has about 40,000 Armenians. The entire Azerbaijani population left the city during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Stepanakert/Khankendi
Ստեփանակերտ Xankəndi | |
|---|---|
City | |
 Coat of arms | |
| 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.stepanakert.am |
Notable nativesEdit
- 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
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Results of 2005 census of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. p. 47.
Other websitesEdit
- 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