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    AZERBAIJANI HISTORICAL FALSIFICATIONS

    By MassisPost
    Updated: March 12, 2014

    A presentation of the Russian edition of Ruben Galchian's book entitled
    "Azerbaijani historical and geographical falsifications" was held on
    March 4 at the Armenian Embassy in Moscow, Russia.

    In the book the author details the main historic stages of the states
    south of the Caucasus with maps of different epochs and references
    to historical sources. Research includes historical and ethnographic
    materials, it also presents an analysis of 45 important Christian,
    Islamic, Greek and Roman maps, which are of great historical
    significance.

    During the presentation of the book Galchian referred to the ongoing
    policy of Azerbaijan to distort history, its origins and methodology
    used. He noted that the book is the result of long and hard work,
    and is an attempt to objectively represent real history thru
    internationally accepted sources.

    By Rouben Galichian

    In May 1918 in the region south of the Caucasus three new states
    were formed, two of which - Armenia and Georgia had a rich history
    and tradition of the statehood. At the same time, north of the
    Arax River and on the east coast of the Caspian Sea another state -
    Azerbaijan was formed, whose name was an anomaly for this region. The
    newly established country gave itself the name of one of the ancient
    north-eastern provinces of Persia, Azerbaijan, which the Armenian
    call with its historical name - Atrpatakan.

    At the time, many Persian scholars protested against the use of the
    name of their province for the naming of the newly established state.

    However, at the time the Great Powers were engaged in the division of
    Middle East oil wells amongst themselves and they did not have time
    to deal with other seemingly unimportant issues. When the Communist
    order was established in Azerbaijan, the new government decided to
    keep the old name with the intention of using it in the future to
    their political advantage.

    In 1925 the Russian orientalist Vassily Vladimirovich Bartold in
    his speech in Baku University announced that the name Azerbaijan was
    given to the new country only for political purposes, a prediction,
    which was later confirmed. This was first manifested when in 1947 in
    Tabriz the Democratic Party announced its desire to join the Soviet
    Azerbaijan and yet again in 1992, when the President of independent
    Azerbaijan, Mr. Elchibey announced that he intends to reunite their
    brothers and sisters living across the border in Iran.

    In time Stalin ordered that each republic of the Soviet Union should
    have its unique and particular history and culture. But how could
    this be made true by a newly created state without past and unified
    history and culture? The solution was found - the history and culture
    of the peoples living in this territory of ancient peoples could be
    declared as their own. To this end Azerbaijani authorities planned and
    implemented special programs which were intensified during the 1960s.

    They reached their apex after independence, with the encouragement
    and guidance of President Ilham Aliyev.

    Since the dominant culture in the region was Armenian, the Azerbaijani
    historians had to take the following steps:

    a) to eliminate the names of all Armenians from the region claiming
    them to be newcomers in the region of the South Caucasus, who arrived
    there during the early 19th century.

    b) to declare that the Albanian Christians or Caucasian Albanians
    who embraced Islam after the tenth century, were their forefathers.

    c) when the opportunity arose to announce that they belong to the
    "great" Turkic nation.

    The above actions would give them the possibility of appropriating
    all the local history and culture and make them an "ancient" and
    "great" country.

    While implementing these programs Azerbaijani authorities encountered
    many problems which they conveniently ignored in order to achieve
    their end. The main problems were:

    1. Despite the fact that the name of the country was changed to
    Azerbaijan, until the adoption of the Stalinist constitution in 1936,
    the locals called themselves "Turks".

    2. The vast majority of Christian monuments of Azerbaijan and Artsakh
    were built during the 10th to 18th centuries, when the local Albanians
    had already been Islamized. The question arises- how could Islamized
    Albanians build and renovate Christian churches, monasteries,
    cross-stones, or were they perhaps done by local Armenian builders?

    3. From the 12th century the region was visited by European, Arab and
    Persian travellers who meticulously described the life and culture of
    the Armenians living in the South Caucasus. The Persian Shah Abbas, who
    the Azerbaijanis claim to be their own, in 1604-5 forcibly displaced
    about half a million Armenians to Persia from Nakhichevan, Armenia and
    Artsakh. If one is to believe what the Azerbaijani historians claim,
    there would be no Armenians living there, therefore, where did Shah
    Abbas brought this great mass of people from and why did he give
    them special permission to name their new settlement New "Julfa",
    which was one of the names of their previous hometowns?

    4. The common language spoken in Azerbaijan and Iranian provinces of
    Azerbaijan is erroneously called "Azeri", while it actually is a form
    of "Turkish". According to Iranian and Iranian Azerbaijani scientists,
    until the 15th to 16th centuries the spoken language of the Iranian
    Azerbaijani people was not Turkish, but a dialect of middle Persian,
    which was the real Azeri language. Since the rule of the Seljuks
    the local language was gradually replaced by the language of the
    new masters - the Turks. It should be noted that in the Azerbaijani
    provinces of Iran there still are some settlements, whose inhabitants
    speak with their ancient Iranian dialects.

    Azerbaijanis have an excellent weapon for amending, modifying and
    censoring the ancient history. A country that insists having five
    thousand years of statehood, has no written culture language until
    the second half of the 19th century, and even then uses the Persian as
    their written language. Thus, they began writing any official document
    and books in Persian and when the language was changed to Turkish, they
    first used the Persian alphabet. First they used the Persian-Arabic
    script, later, in 1929 they changed it to the Latin alphabet, and
    in 1939 this was changed to the Cyrillic alphabet, and once again,
    after independence they returned to a modified Latin alphabet.

    All these transliterations allow the Azerbaijani authorities and
    historians to change, transform and falsify their own history to
    serve their political goals, which manifest itself in all literature.

    Azerbaijanis insist that: Azerbaijani statehood has five thousand
    years of history.

    1. Azerbaijan as an independent country has existed more than 2,000
    years.

    2. Empires, including the Arab Caliphate, Iran and Russia colonized
    Azerbaijan, emasculating its Turkish culture.

    3. In 1813 and 1828 a joint Russian-Iranian conspiracy divided
    Azerbaijan into two parts and brought the Armenians to the Caucasus.

    4. Founded in 1918, the Republic of Azerbaijan testified to the
    revival of historical Azerbaijan, the first democracy in the East.

    The present book carefully studies the works of European, Arab,
    Persian, and other historians born in the territory of modern
    Azerbaijan concluding that the country called "Azerbaijan" located
    north of the Arax River, was founded in 1918 and its population being
    a mixture of various nationalities and cultures, cannot be claimed
    to have one unique and individual culture and history. The book also
    reveals the reasons and purpose of historical falsification of the
    Azerbaijan Republic.

    Like the United States of America, Azerbaijan should also have
    the courage to admit that its population is a mixture of different
    cultures and histories that cannot be uniform and be called uniquely
    Azerbaijani.

    After this introduction and for further clarification, some twenty
    ancient and medieval map images were presented and analysed.

    http://massispost.com/2014/03/azerbaijani-historical-falsifications/

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