Timeline of Artsakh history

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This is a timeline of Artsakh's history, representing territorial control under three columns:

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Timeline of Artsakh history
Starting DateSovereignState/RegionArtsakh Proper
592 BC [1] Iran (Medes)Unknown (Urtekhini? [2] )
549 BCStandard of Cyrus the Great (Achaemenid Empire).svg Iran (Achaemenid dynasty) [3]
321 BC
189 BC [4]
Standard of the Artaxiad dynasty.svg Armenia (Artaxiad dynasty) [5] Province of Artsakh of the Kingdom of Armenia 189 BC to 387 AD [note 1]
Sophene and Kingdom of Commagene - Tigranes the Great conquered these territories
65 BC [6] RomeStandard of the Artaxiad dynasty.svg(Artaxiad dynasty) Tigranes II of Armenia becomes a client king of Rome
53 BC [7] Persia (Arsacid dynasty) defeats Rome at the Battle of Carrhae Standard of the Artaxiad dynasty.svg Armenia (Artaxiad dynasty) - Artavasdes II becomes king of Armenia.
36 BCRome Mark Antony begins Parthian campaign [8] Rebellion of King Zober of Albania defeated.
33 BCRomeStandard of the Artaxiad dynasty.svg Armenia (Artaxiad dynasty)
36 Iran (Arsacid dynasty)
47
51 [9] Iberia (Pharnavazid dynasty)
58True flag of the Arshakuni Arsacid dynasty.png Armenia (Arsacid dynasty)
62 Iran (Arsacid dynasty) Parthians under Vologases I invade Armenia, unsuccessfully besiege Romans in Tigranocerta.
63Rome: Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo invades Armenia and defeats Tiridates I, who accepts Roman sovereignty. Parthia withdraws.
64 Iran (Arsacid dynasty)
114 [10] Rome Roman Armenia Emperor Trajan defeats the Parthians and overruns Armenia
118True flag of the Arshakuni Arsacid dynasty.png Armenia (Arsacid dynasty)
252Derafsh Kaviani flag of the late Sassanid Empire.svg Iran (Sassanian dynasty)True flag of the Arshakuni Arsacid dynasty.png Armenia (Arsacid dynasty)
287Rome: Diocletian signs peace treaty with King Bahram II of Persia, installs the pro-Roman Arsacid Tiridates III as king in western Armenia.
363Derafsh Kaviani flag of the late Sassanid Empire.svg Persia(Sassanian dynasty: Jovian cedes Corduene and Arzanene to Sassanids. Corduene and Arzanene
Albania (Mihranid dynasty)
376True flag of the Arshakuni Arsacid dynasty.png Armenia (Arsacid dynasty)
387Derafsh Kaviani flag of the late Sassanid Empire.svg Iran (Sassanian dynasty)
Albania (Mihranid dynasty)with Sasanian help seizes from Armenia the entire right bank of the river Kura up to the river Araxes includes Artsakh and Utik. [11]
Division of Greater Armenia between Persia and Byzantium
654 Arab Caliphate Albania (Mihranid dynasty),

al-Arminiya

850Armenian Flag Khachen.png Artsakh
884Bagratuni flag.svg Armenia (Bagratid dynasty)Armenian Flag Khachen.png Artsakh
1045Armenian Flag Khachen.png Artsakh
1063Flag of the Seljuk.png Seljuk Empire Armenian Flag Khachen.png Artsakh
1092 Eldiguzids
1124Sakartvelo - drosha.svg Georgia (Bagratid dynasty) Eldiguzids
1201 Armenia (Zakarid dynasty)
1214 [12] [13] Armenian Flag Khachen.png  Artsakh (Hasan-Jalalyan dynasty)
1236 Mongol Empire
1256 Ilkhanate
1261Armenian Flag Khachen.png  Khachen (Hasan-Jalalyan dynasty)
1360 Karabakh
1337 Chobanids
1357 Jalayirids
1375 Kara Koyunlu
1387 Timurid Empire
1409 Kara Koyunlu
1468 Ak Koyunlu
1501Safavid Flag.svg  Iran (Safavid dynasty) Province of Karabakh Melikdoms of Karabakh (Khamsa) [note 2]
1583Zulfikar flag.svg Ottoman Empire
1603Safavid Flag.svg  Iran (Safavid dynasty)
1725
1736Nadir Shah Flag.svg  Iran (Afsharid dynasty)
1747 [13] Karabakh Khanate
1751Zand Dynasty flag.svg  Iran (Zand dynasty)
1797Flag of Agha Mohammad Khan.svg Iran (Qajar dynasty)
1805-05 [13] [note 3] Flag of Russia.svg  Russia (Romanov dynasty)
1822 [13]
1846 Shemakha Governorate [note 4]
1868 [13] Elisabethpol Governorate
1917-11-11Flag of Russia (1696-1917).svg Transcaucasian Commissariat
1918-04-22 Transcaucasia [note 5]
28 May 1918 [13] First Republic of Armenia: Declaration of independenceFlag of the First Republic of Armenia.svg Armenian rebels
1918-06-04 [note 6]
1918-07-27Flag of the First Republic of Armenia.svg People's Government of Karabakh
1918-09Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg  Ottoman Empire
1918-10-30 [note 7] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  British Empire Mountainous Karabakh was placed under the jurisdiction of Flag of Azerbaijan 1918.svg  Azerbaijan until the final delimitation agreement would be reached at the Paris Peace Conference.
1919-08-22 [note 8]
1919-08-23 [note 9]
1920-03-04 [note 10] Flag of Azerbaijan 1918.svg  Azerbaijan
1920-04-09
1920-04-13 [note 11]
1920-04-22 [note 12]
1920-04-28 [note 13]
1920-05-12 [13] Communist star.svg Red Army 11th Red Army advances into Armenia on 29 November 1920; transfer of power on 2 December in Yerevan.Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1921).svg  Azerbaijan SSR
1920-05-26The final status of Mountainous Karabakh was still being debated.
Dec. 1, 1920 [note 14]
1921-07-04 [13] [note 15]
1922-03-12Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1921).svg  Azerbaijan SSR,

Flag of the Transcaucasian SFSR.svg  Transcaucasian SFSR

1922-12-30 [13] Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
1923-07-07 [13] [note 16] Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
1936-12-05Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1956-1991).svg  Azerbaijan SSR
1991 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
1991-04-30 [note 17]
1991-09-02 [note 18]
1991-11-26 [13] [note 19]
1994-05-12 [note 20] De facto Flag of Artsakh.svg  Artsakh, de jure Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
2020-09-27 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
2020-11-10 [note 21]

Control over Nagorno-Karabakh is divided between Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan and Flag of Artsakh.svg  Artsakh with Flag of Russia.svg Russian peacekeeping forces. Final status to be determined. [17]

September 2023 - January 2024

Dissolution of the Republic of Artsakh due to the 2023 Azerbaijani Offensive, followed by a refugee crisis in which nearly the entire population fled to Armenia.

See also

Notes

  1. The exact date of the establishment of the Province of Artsakh is not known, but is believed to be sometime before 189 BC.
  2. The Hasan-Jalalyan dynasty branches out sometime in the 16th century.
  3. The Russian Empire occupies the lands, but they're formally annexed only in 1813 by the Treaty of Gulistan.
  4. Shemakha Governorate was renamed to Baku Governorate in 1859.
  5. The Transcaucasian Democratic Federal Republic was a multi-national entity established by Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian leaders.
  6. Treaty of Batum
  7. Armistice of Mudros
  8. Seventh Assembly of Mountainous Karabakh
  9. British withdrawal.
  10. Eighth Assembly of Mountainous Karabakh
  11. General Dro (Drastamat Kanayan) takes parts of Mountainous Karabakh on behalf of the Republic of Armenia.
  12. Ninth Assembly of Mountainous Karabakh
  13. Azerbaijan is invaded by the Red Army.
  14. Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1921).svg  Azerbaijan SSR's revolutionary committee declares Mountainous Karabakh to be transferred to Flag of SSRA.svg  Armenian SSR.
  15. Kavbiuro decides to leave Mountainous-Karabakh within Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1921).svg  Azerbaijan SSR.
  16. Declared, and then implemented in November of 1924.
  17. Operation Ring
  18. The Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast declare their independence.
  19. Azerbaijan abolishes the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
  20. Bishkek Protocol ceasefire.
  21. 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.

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