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SIXTY PERCENT OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES IN VAYOTS DZOR TO BE REPLACED
Armenpress
Nov 08 2006
YEGHEGNADZOR, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: A special commission that was
set up in Vayots Dzor province to examine all geographic names of
the region has found that 60 percent of 2,861 such names need to be
changed because they are of foreign (mainly Turkic) origin and many
are not euphonic.
The commission has presented a list of new names to replace the old
ones. Local rural and urban communities gave their accord to changing
these names.
Now they are waiting for a special government decision to do it.
An official of the governor's office said the proposed names are
either Armenian translations of Turkic names or the original names
of the places, rivers, lakes, mountains and other sites that were
replaced at one time by Turkic names.
Armenpress
Nov 08 2006
YEGHEGNADZOR, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: A special commission that was
set up in Vayots Dzor province to examine all geographic names of
the region has found that 60 percent of 2,861 such names need to be
changed because they are of foreign (mainly Turkic) origin and many
are not euphonic.
The commission has presented a list of new names to replace the old
ones. Local rural and urban communities gave their accord to changing
these names.
Now they are waiting for a special government decision to do it.
An official of the governor's office said the proposed names are
either Armenian translations of Turkic names or the original names
of the places, rivers, lakes, mountains and other sites that were
replaced at one time by Turkic names.