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Xankändi
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Xankändi

Capital of Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous oblast in Azerbaijan, 95 km/59 mi southeast of Gäncä; population (2001 est) 63,300. Silk production is a key industry in the city. As in the surrounding region, the city's inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Armenians.

The city's name was changed when Azerbaijan gained independence; it was formerly named in honour of the Baku communist leader Stepan Shaumya.
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But they still did," he says, pointing to the rows of photographs at the exhibit inside the Stepanakert museum documenting historical Armenian lands within Azerbaijan control where the fate of many of their churches are unknown.
Armenian 'Khachkars': symbols of tragedy and defiance by Todaro, Chuck / Catholic Insight
Later in 1991, in October, Azerbaijan announced that it would end the status of autonomy conferred upon Karabakh when it was made an oblast, and would rename Karabakh's capital city Stepanakert with a Turkish name.
Nagorno Karabakh: forgotten people in a forgotten war by Cox, Caroline / Contemporary Review
Robert Kocharyan was born in 1954 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
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