Black Garden : Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War

part of Soviet Azerbaijan, 129–31; cease-
fire line around, 1–6, 247–48, 253, 268; 
churches of, 141, 146–47, 191–92; demo-
graphics of, 130, 140, 149, 151, 284; eco­
nomic condition of, 139–40; history of, 
3, 8–9, 145–46, 186–87; meliks of, 146, 
149, 156, 187; military traditions of, 
185–87, 206; mixed cultural traditions 
of, 186–87; name, ix, 8; in 1918–20, 
127–29; situation in 2000–2001, 6–7, 
241–50; status of in peace deal, 255–56, 
263–64, 280; as unrecognized state, 2, 
244–47. See also Shusha; Stepanakert 
Nakhichevan: and Aliev, 84–85, 161, 210; 
Armenians and, 133, 143, 154, 286, 300; 
blockade of, 87, 270–71; and Meghri 
road, 135–36, 203; in 1918–21, 127–28, 
129; in 1990, 88–89, 91; railway line 
through, 223; situation in 2000, 270–71 
Nakhichevanik, 170, 267 
Nalbandian, Grigor, 74 
Namazov, Eldar, 81, 84, 238, 264 
Narimanov, Nariman, 129, 130 
Natevan, 189, 190 
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 162, 228
Nazarov, Magiram, 201, 211
Neftaliev, Zahid, 201, 211
Nefyodov, Boris, 67–68, 69
New Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani political