AZERIS TO DRAW NEW MAP TO RESTORE ORIGINAL PLACENAMES IN KARABAKH

Trend news agency
15 Dec 04

BAKU

A total of 2.2bn manats (about 448,000 dollars) have been allocated
from the Azerbaijani state budget for the development of a new
topographic map of Nagornyy Karabakh, Trend has quoted the head of the
executive authorities of the town of Xocali, MP Elman Mammadov, as
saying.

He said the placenames given by the Armenians in the Soviet period not
only on the territory of Karabakh itself, but also in the adjacent
Goranboy District will now correspondent to their historical
equivalents. Mammadov said more than 20 residential settlements had
been Armenianized in Xocali alone, but in the years of independence
the places received their original names.

(Passage omitted: examples of places that were renamed in the years of
independence)

The new map of Nagornyy Karabakh is being prepared jointly by
specialists from the Institute of Cartography under the National
Academy of Sciences and the State Committee on land and cartography.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress