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| Azerbaijan and Armenia, arch-enemies in the Caucasus, have been locked for decades in a territorial dispute over Armenia-occupied Karabakh. (TRTWorld) Area shown is approximately 500 miles across |
I've been hearing about this conflict for a while now. What we have is neighbors setting up camp in each other's back yards, and nobody is happy about it. Part of Azerbaijan is cut off from the rest of the country by Armenia. The conflict is still in the news, so I went looking for map that illustrated this problem. This one that shows it is even more twisted than originally described.
Notice that this region is pinned between three relatively powerful countries: Russia, Turkey and Iran. Baku was the original oil boom town. It's still a big player in the oil business.
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| The Nobel Brothers' oil wells in Balakhani, a suburb of Baku, circa 1890. |
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