THE STATEMENT ABOUT "ANCIENT ARMENIANITY" IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS AND IN KARABAKH IS AN UNFOUNDED IDEA

Abstract

Armenians resettled from different lands of the world to Asia Minor, and from there from the beginning of the 19th century to the South Caucasus, as well as to the mountainous part of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan subsequently denied all historical facts and tried to prove that they were the ancient inhabitants of these lands. They tried to deceive the whole world with the assertion that they were the ancient people of these lands, adding before the names of material, spiritual, written, ethnographic monuments belonging to local peoples, the fictitious phrase “ancient Armenian. After they finally managed to create a state for themselves at the beginning of the 20th century, with the help of their supporters, on this false basis, they began to make both material and territorial claims against local and neighboring peoples. Although some Armenian scholars try to deny the resettlement of Armenians to the South Caucasus, as well as to Karabakh, the documents and numbers prove that this is a historical fact. These facts and figures are reflected in the decrees of the Russian tsars, as well as in the letters and statistics of the tsarist officials who participated in these resettlements and population censuses, as well as in the works of Russian and even Armenian political scientists and historians. On the basis of these documents and numbers, the article proves that the claims of Armenians to "ancient" in the South Caucasus, as well as in Karabakh, are false statements.