The word Karabakh is generally held to originate from Turkic and Persian, and literally means "black garden".
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- The name first appears in Georgian and Persian sources of the 13th and 14th centuries.
- Karabagh is an acceptable alternate spelling of Karabakh, and also denotes a kind of patterned rug originally produced in the area.
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In an alternative theory proposed by Bagrat Ulubabyan the name Karabakh has a Turkic-Armenian origin, meaning "Greater Baghk" (Armenian :Մեծ Բաղք - ), a reference to Ktish-Baghk (later:Dizak), one of the principalities of Artsakh under the rule of the Aranshahik dynasty, which held the throne of the Kingdom of Syunik in the 11th - 13th centuries and called itself the "Kingdom of Baghk".
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Likewise, the names for the region in the various local languages all translate to "mountainous Karabakh", or "mountainous black garden":
| Armenian :Լեռնային Ղարաբաղ - , transliterated Leṙnayin Ġarabaġ
Azerbaijani :Dağlıq Qarabağ - (mountainous Karabakh) or Yuxarı Qarabağ (upper Karabakh
| Russian :Нагорный Карабах - , transliterated Nagornyj Karabax
It is often referred to by the Armenians living in the area as Artsakh (Armenian:Արցախ - ), designating the 10th province of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia. In Urartian inscriptions (9th - 7th centuries BC), the name Urtekhini is used for the region.
- Ancient Greek sources called the area Orkhistene.
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