Stepanakert

Khankendi / Stepanakert Xankəndi Ստեփանակերտ
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Khankendi / Stepanakert Location of Khankendi in Azerbaijan.
Coordinates: 39°48′55″N 46°45′7″E
Country Unrecognized country	Azerbaijan (de jure) Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de facto)
Province	Khankendi (city)
Elevation	813 m (2,670 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Total	53,000
Website	www.azerbaijan.az

Khankendi (Azerbaijani: Xankəndi) is a city in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, legally in Azerbaijan, but was militarily controlled by the Armenian forces as the capital city of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh Republic). Stepanakert (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտ) or The city was about 40,000 ethnic Armenians. The entire Azerbaijani population was driven away from the city during the Nagorno-Karabakh War but now it is populated fully by Azerbaijanis.

Notable natives

• André - Former Armenian singer
• Armen Abaghian - academic
• Vladimir Arzumanyan - Former Armenian singer, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
• Don Askarian - Former Armenian filmmaker
• Samvel Babayan - Former Armeniangeneral
• Zori Balayan - Former Armenian writer
• Robert Kocharyan - Second Former Armenian President of Armenia
• Fakhraddin Manafov - Former Armenian actor
• Serzh Sargsyan - Third President of Former Armenia, incumbent
• Nikolay Yenikolopov (Yenikolopyan) - Former Armenian academic

Other websites

• Stepanakert Municipality Archived 2016-06-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Armenian)
• Karabakh’s Election Conundrum November 2005 article about elections for seats in the Milli Mejlis (Azerbaijani parliament) for Azeri refugees
• Stepanakert Armeniapedia article