Armenia Territorial Dispute -

As Soviet authority crumbled in the late 1980s, the NKAO voted to join Armenia, sparking the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994).

In 1923, the Soviet Union established the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) within the Azerbaijan SSR , despite the region having a majority ethnic Armenian population. armenia territorial dispute

In September 2020, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive to retake the territories. As Soviet authority crumbled in the late 1980s,