Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast - Wikipedia
The area was disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan during their short-lived independence from 1918 and 1920. After the Sovietization of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kavbiuro decided to keep Karabakh within Azerbaijan SSR with broad regional autonomy, with the administrative center in the city of Shusha.. On July 7, 1923, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was created and the capital was moved to ...