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- aimed at "de-Armenizing" the territory culturally and then physically and followed a similar pattern to Azerbaijan's treatment of Armenians in Nakhchivan. Census data from the Soviet period reflects these demographic shifts. The city of Shusha--once a major center of Armenian cultural life within Nagorno-Karabakh--became overwhelmingly Azerbaijani. In 1959, Armenians constituted 84.4% of Nagorno-Karabagh's population; twenty years later, their share had fallen

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