The Karabakh Range or Artsakh range is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...
of
Lesser Caucasus
The Lesser Caucasus or Lesser Caucasus Mountains, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main ranges of the Caucasus Mountains, of length about . The western portion of the Lesser Caucasus overlaps and converges with east Turkey an ...
. It stretches in an arc from North to South-East from
Tartar river
The Tartar (, ) is one of the tributaries of the Kura river located in Azerbaijan. It passes through the districts of Kalbajar, Barda and Tartar.
Overview
The Tartar is a left tributary of the Kura, the largest river in the Caucasus. The rive ...
to
Aras River
The Aras is a transboundary river in the Caucasus. It rises in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between Iran and both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and, fin ...
. The
Hakari River (left tributary of the
Aras) separates it from the
Karabakh Plateau
The Karabakh Plateau or Syunik Plateau (, ) is a volcanic plateau of the Lesser Caucasus, in Armenia and Azerbaijan, in the most eastern point of Armenian Highlands. It extends from the south of the Murovdag/Mrav range towards the East Sevan Ra ...
. The highest point is
Mount Kirs (, , ) (2,725 m).
Карабахский хребет
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...
Gallery
File:Kaňon řeky Karkar, Náhorní Karabach.jpg, Canyon near Shusha
Shusha (, ) or Shushi () is a city in Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres (4,600–5,900 ft) in the Karabakh mountains, the city was a mountain resort in the Soviet Union, Soviet ...
File:Մեծ Քիրս.JPG, Mount Kirs as seen from Shusha
References
Mountain ranges of the Caucasus
Mountain ranges of Azerbaijan
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