Xankandi

Stepanakert Khankendi and in the beginning called Vararakn, is the capital and the most important metropolis of the de facto Republic of Artsakh. The Republic has restrained international recognition, being deemed part of the Republic of Azerbaijan by using maximum nations. As of 2015, the populace of Stepanakert is 55,200. According to medieval Armenian assets, the agreement became first referred to as Vararakn, a name that remained in use until 1847, when it became renamed Khankendi.

Azerbaijani sources usually say that the agreement was based within the past due eighteenth century as a private residence for khans of the Karabakh Khanate, and become accordingly known as Khankendi. The settlement was to begin with known as Khanin Kendi, however then become shortened to Khankendi. In 1923 Khankendi changed into renamed Stepanakert by way of the Soviet authorities to honor Stepan Shahumyan, ethnic Armenian leader of the 26 Baku Commissars, and, after the Shusha pogrom had ended in essential destruction at Shusha, the former nearby capital, Stepanakert became made the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.