Xankändi
Related Category: CIS and Baltic Political Geography
(zänkăn´dē), formerly
Stepanakert(styĭpän´´əkyĕrt´), city (1989 pop. 56,705), capital of
Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region of Azerbaijan. Silk, wine, and food are processed in the city. Xankändi became a town in the 1920s. Xankändi suffered severe damage from both the 1988 Armenian earthquake and the Armenian-Azeri war for control of Nagorno-Karabakh.
