page_title: Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
section_title: International issues
hierarchical_section_title: Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic / International issues
caption_attribution_description: English: These two khachkars, originally from Jugha were taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia to be put on display.
context_page_description: The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The region covers 5,500 km² with a population of 414,900, bordering Armenia to the east and north, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest.
  The area that is now Nakhchivan became part of the Safavid dynasty of Iran in the 16th century. In 1828, after the last Russo-Persian War and the Treaty of Turkmenchay, the Nakhchivan Khanate passed from Iranian into Imperial Russian possession. After the 1917 February Revolution, Nakhchivan and its surrounding region were under the authority of the Special Transcaucasian Committee of the Russian Provisional Government and subsequently of the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. When the TDFR was dissolved in May 1918, Nakhchivan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Zangezur, and Qazakh were heavily contested between the newly formed and short-lived states of the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. In June 1918, the region came under Ottoman occupation.
caption: Examples of Armenian khachkars from Julfa.
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