Subject: Re: Enclaves
Date: Apr 27, 2001 @ 16:47
Author: granthutchison@cs.com (granthutchison@...)
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> > 2)Peter Hering's fine Caucasus mapI only know it from Peter's uploaded image, I'm afraid.
> Can you or Peter H. tell me where to find it?
> In my old Soviet atlas (1987), I can find more enclaves in/outsideof
> Nagornyy Karabakh:town
> Inside N.K. (so part of Azerbaijan proper):
> A) In the extreme n.w. part of N.K.
> B) Near the Byoyuk Kirs mountain (the transcription is from Russian
> and therefore not correct, I know)
> C) In the extreme s. part of N.K., about 10 km n.w. of the Azeri
> of Dzhebrail (again transcribed from Russian)of
> D) Approx. 12 km north of east of the N.K. town of Krasnyy Bazar
> (this is a Russian town name, possibly renamed later) and 12 km s.
> the N.K. town of MartuniLovely! This ties in with Brendan's estimate of about 6 enclaves in
> Outside N.K. (so part of N.K.):
> E) Approx. 17 km south of enclave B
> F) Approx. 10 km s.e. of the Azeri town of Agdam
> In none of the enclaves a settlement is depicted.There's definitely one in your enclave A) on Peter's map, but the
> P.S. the name of the area is Nagornyy Karabakh in Russian (inproper,
> scientific, transliteration: Nagornyj Karabach). Thereason 'Nagorno'
> came into use is that the old full name in Russian was Nagorno-this
> Karabakhskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast (Autonomous Province of N.K.). In
> the first, short form, Nagornyy is an adjective and has the
> appropriate suffix, in the latter, full form, Nagorno is an adverb,
> because Karabakhskaya is the adjective here to Oblast. Sorry for
> little grammar lesson....Ah, but it's a fine thing to be told stuff like this; thank you.