Kurdish Republic of Lachin

The Kurdish Republic of Lachin (Kurdish: Komara kurdî ya Laçînê; Кoмара Кӧрдийа Лачине) was a short-lived unrecognized state declared by Kurdish nationalists on the territory of the former Kurdistan Uezd in 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and dissolved in the same year. == Background == In 1923, the government of the Soviet Union had created an administrative unit known as Kurdistan Uezd, or "Red Kurdistan" within the Azerbaijan SSR. It consisted of the districts of Lachin, Qubadli and Zangilan, with its capital in Lachin.

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