Nagorny karabach flag. The national flag of the nagorno karabakh republic is a tricolor with equal upper red the middle blue and the lower orange horizontal stripes with a white five toothed stepped pattern on the flag which begins from the two verges of the clothos right side and is connected on one third of the flag. On june 2 1992 the self proclaimed republic of artsakh a de facto independent republic internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan in the south caucasus region adopted a flag derived from the flag of armenia to which a white five toothed stepped pattern is added beginning at the two verges of the flags right side and meeting at a point equal to one third of the distance from that side. Such words are not used in the armenian name but appeared in the regions official name during the soviet era as nagorno karabakh autonomous oblast. Artsakh officially the republic of artsakh r t s ae x.
The prefix nagorno derives from the russian attributive adjective nagorny nagornyy which means highlandthe azerbaijani names of the region include the similar adjectives dagliq mountainous or yuxari upper.
SHARE THIS PAGE!