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Line 44: ==Name== [[File:Kaukasus.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Snow-covered Lesser Caucasus south of the Greater Caucasus. About 1800 the eastern side of the Lesser Caucasus was ruled by the Ganja Khanate in the north and the Karabagh Khanate in the south. The Karabagh Khanate extended east into the lowlands, hence the name Nagorno- or Highland- Karabagh.]] The prefix ''Nagorno-'' is derived from the Russian [[Adjective#Form\|attributive adjective]] ''nagorny'' ([[wikt:нагорный\|нагорный]]), which means "highland". The [[Azerbaijani language\|Azerbaijani]] names of the region include the similar adjectives "dağlıq" (mountainous) or "yuxarı" (upper). Such words are not used in the [[Armenian language\|Armenian]] name, but they have appeared in the official name of the region during the [[Soviet Union\|Soviet]] era as [[Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast]]. Other languages apply their own wording for ''mountainous'', ''upper'', or ''highland''; for example, the official name used by the [[Nagorno-Karabakh Republic]] in France is ''Haut-Karabakh'', meaning "Upper Karabakh".

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