[2] The territory remained predominantly Armenian up until the Russo-Persian wars and the South Caucasus invasion of the Ottoman army in the 18th century.

[3] Mher Arakelyan from the ARF, Razmik Mirzoyan, non-partisan, and Hrach Manucharyan were competing in the mayoral election held in June 2008.

[4] From 1 December 2020, most of the Kashatagh Province was retaken by or returned to Azerbaijan, with the exception of the Lachin corridor containing the localities of Berdzor, Sus and Aghavno, which were controlled by the Russian peacekeepers until 26 August 2022.

[5] By June 2015, an estimated 17,000 of Syrian Armenian's population, once 80,000 in Syria, had fled the civil war and sought refuge in Armenia.

[6] David Babayan, spokesperson of the Artsakh president Bako Sahakyan, confirmed that some of those refugees had been resettled in Nagorno-Karabakh.