Qarabağ

Qarabağ is an Armenian city under the rule of today's Armenia.[1]

The name Karabakh is a Russian transliteration of the local Karabagh, which is generally believed to be a compound of the Iranian word bagh (garden), literally meaning "black garden." However, this has been questioned by some linguists and historians, as black is uncharacteristic of a region "as lush and green" as Karabakh.

According to Iranian linguist Abdolali Karang, kara could have derived from kaleh or kala, which

Another theory, proposed by Armenian historian Bagrat Ulubabyan, is that, along with the "large" translation of kara, the bagh component may have derived from the nearby canton called Baghk, which at some point was part of Armenian principalities within modern-day Karabakh — Dizak and the Kingdom of Syunik (in Baghk, the -k suffix is a plural nominative case marker also used to form names of countries in Old Armenian). In this sense, Karabakh would translate to "Greater Baghk."