Abstract
The escalation of the Karabakh conflict during late 2020 and the resumption of the second Karabakh War—as a result of the provocative actions by the Armenian government and its puppet regime, the so-called “Artsakh Republic”—have aroused the renewed interest of the scientific community in the historical origins of the territory over which Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting for many years. There is no consensus among scientific experts on this conflict’s causes or even its course, and the factual details and their interpretation remain under discussion. However, there are six resolutions by the United Nations Security Council that recognize the disputed territories as Azerbaijan’s national territory. This paper presents the historical, linguistic, and juridical facts that support the claim of Azerbaijan to these territories. The second war in Nagorno-Karabakh is a national liberation war for Azerbaijan.
Highlights
The center of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia is the southern Caucasus, which is formally part of Asia Minor and shares borders with the Middle East
The Armenian fictionary conception is proved to be unfounded by both the facts that mountainous part of Karabakh did not belong to the areas ruled by Urartian Kingdom and the name of Arsakh province was first mentioned during the rule of Alban-Arshakids dynasty
The archeological findings in the mountainous part of Karabakh and the written sources on the ancient history of this territory confirm invalidity of the faked conception about the formation of Arsak toponym from the toponym of Urtehi which covered the south-east part of Lake Goyche
Summary
The center of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia is the southern Caucasus, which is formally part of Asia Minor and shares borders with the Middle East. The Hayk people migrated to Anatolia and the Southern Caucasus apparently from the Balkans and settled in the region of Har Mani (the mountains of Minni). They adopted the ethnic name of Armenians. The massive resettlement of Armenians in Karabakh, Irevan (current Yerevan, the present capital of Armenia), Goyche, Nakhchevan, and Borchali at the beginning of 19th century by Empire of Russia (Tsarist Russia) was accompanied by a massacre of the Azerbaijani Turks and falsification of the historical facts, including the change/distortion of the ancient toponyms of the Karabakh region, including the Ərsak/Ersak toponym, which refers to the old Turkic people and covers the mountainous part of Karabakh
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