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Artsakh's significance to the Armenian people is deeply rooted in cultural and historical memory. After the demise of the centralised Armenian state in the Middle Ages, Artsakh enjoyed the longest period of self-rule relative to other Armenian regions. In its entirety, Artsakh's political autonomy lasted without interruption from antiquity to the 1760s. Throughout this period, either as a kingdom of its own or as a union of self-governed principalities within regional empires, Artsakh remained a bastion of Christendom and Armenian nationhood... Political upheavals throughout the Middle Ages as a result of Turko-Islamic colonisation led to the subordination of indigenous Christian populations and the annexation of historically Armenian lands. During this time, the regions which are now recognised as the Azerbaijani Republic lost most of their aboriginal Armenian population due to the Ottoman Empire's genocidal attempts to engineer a geographically contiguous pan-Turkic empire. This..

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