Susa

Shusha or Shushi is a city within the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside the South Caucasus. It has been underneath the manage of the self-proclaimed Artsakh Republic for the reason that its capture in 1992 at some stage in the Nagorno-Karabakh War. However, it's far a de jure a part of the Republic of Azerbaijan, with the status of an administrative department of the encircling Shusha Rayon. According to the Resolution No.884 of the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly by way of the Resolution No.62 to 243 the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan turned into partly diagnosed and that they encompass a demand of withdrawal of the Armenian forces.

Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres in the Karabakh Mountains, Shusha become a mountain activity motel in the Soviet era. Shusha as a agreement is first noted as Shushi inside the Middle Ages, with the 15th century illuminated Armenian Gospel kept on show at Yerevan's Matenadaran being the earliest regarded artifact from the metropolis. The Gospel becomes created in Shusha by using the calligrapher Ter-Manuel in 1428.