Throughout modern history, the city mainly fostered a mixed Armenian–Azerbaijani population. The first available demographic information about the city in 1823 suggest that the city had an Azerbaijani-majority, however, the number of Armenian inhabitants of the city steadily grew over time until the destruction of Armenian quarter of the city in 1920 by Azerbaijani forces, which resulted in the death or expulsion of the Armenian part of the population. After the capture of Shusha in 1992 by Armenian forces during First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the city's majority-Azerbaijani population were killed or expulsed and the city was almost completely destroyed.