for decades we hear Armenian propaganda & nearly all media shamelessly falsify the historical record about Armenians being majority in "Nagorno-Karabakh". Note the terminology - "Nagorno-Karabakh" vs. Karabakh - it's very important to understand this nuance.
"Nagorno" is the Russian for "mountainous" & is a later add-on, a 20th century invention, to the historic name of Karabakh (that Azerbaijani word [consists of Turkic "kara" & Persian "bagh" - thus Azerbaijani], which means black garden, dates back to around 13th century).
Thus, historically, there was only one Karabakh region, with fairly stable borders. And Azerbaijanis, and before them their ancestors the Caucasian Albanians, have been a majority in that region at all time. At no time have Armenians been a majority in that region.
But in 1917-1918, as the Russian empire fell, Armenian side came up with an idea: let's disaggregate Karabakh into Mountainous Karabakh & the rest (Lowland Karabakh & sometimes Foothills Karabakh). With a stroke of a pen history & geography were manipulated for political needs.
Moreover, when drawing this "Nagorno" Karabakh its designers made every attempt to selectively include only Armenian-populated villages & towns, & exclude all Azerbaijani populated one's. Indeed, in first NKAO (AONK) largest city - Shusha - was excluded, since it was Azerbaijani.
Hence, we have this convoluted, strangely looking region that's shaped perhaps like letter "R" drawn by a drunk person. In the next thread we will show the census data on the population of Karabakh from the 19th century. 
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