In 1919 it was not Karabakh, on the contrary Zangezur which brought the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the edge of open warfare.
Beginning in 1918 the Azeris ravageed the Armenian settlements linking Zangezur and Karabakh, while Armenian military leaders including Garegin Njdeh and General Andranik expell the Azeri inhabitants of [i]clavis[/i] villages in the center of Zangezur.
For a landlocked abiding habitation like Armenia, the thin southern strip of Zangezur (historically known as Siunik) is Armenia's fourth window to the outside world-important for a
