The Ancient history of Karabakh By Narek Yegoyan The heated dispute between Armenians and Azerbaijanis on who has rights to the mountainous Karabakh had started when Karabakh was transferred to Soviet Azerbaijan. Ever since it has been controversial to both ethnicities. Following the Nagorno-Karabakh War where Armenia successfully defeated Azeri forces and took control of Nagorno-Karabakh the real question was whether Karabakh belonged historically to Armenia or Azerbaijan. Azeri historians often like to claim Caucasian Albania had control to Karabakh historically, even though Caucasian Albania was a Christian state in which most there kings were Armenian-speaking or Armenian themselves. According to Ben Fowkers, in his book "Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World" he wr