Abstract
As the Decree of July 7, 1923 of the Azerbaidzhan Central Executive Committee of Soviets states, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblasta was formed "from the Armenian part of Nagornyi Karabakh."1 The territory is around 4,400 square kilometers. The number of inhabitants as of late 1923 was 157,800. Armenians comprised 94.4 percent.2 A portion of the territory of Nagornyi Karabakh with an Armenian population, especially the present-day Shaumiansk region of Azerbaidzhan, was deliberately not included in the autonomous oblast. The population and nationality makeup of the inhabitants of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast have changed as follows (see Table 1).

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