Abstract:

When the Armenian state was established in the historical region of Azerbaijan - Iravan in 1918, a large part of the toponyms here were of Azerbaijani origin. After the establishment of Soviet Union in Armenia in 1920, with the support of Soviet Russia, its territory was expanded at the expense of Azerbaijani lands, and as a result of this the number of toponyms of Azerbaijani origin increased again. Within the policy of Armenianization carried out in Armenia, the renaming of places of Azerbaijani origin has become aplanned state policy. For the first time, the presented article provides a table on the dynamics of renaming places of Azerbaijani origin in Armenia, and examines the relationship between the scale of this process and the political line of state power. It was determined that this policy has been implemented systematically during all the governments that existed in Armenia, thus, the names of places of Azerbaijani origin were completely erased from the map, and a great historical heritage has been destroyed. Neither during any historical periods nor in modern times has such an experience been found in any country in the world.

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