SPECIAL ISSUE OF “IRS” MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO KARABAKH PUBLISHED IN MOSCOW
[June 03, 2005, 18:14:37]

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
June 3 2005

The special issue of the International Azerbaijan magazine
“Irs-Heritage ” named “Karabakh ” and completely devoted to this
pearl of Azerbaijan was published in Moscow.

The edition is an original mini-encyclopedia of Karabakh and first
such edition, which was released abroad. This colorfully 112-page
polished magazine-almanac is devoted to the history and culture of
Karabakh. It is unusual for its contents, and was prepared on the
basis of authentic historical materials and unique photos, documents
and little-known ancient maps of Karabakh. The magazine covers all
period of the existence of Karabakh, since times of antiquity (the
Albanian period) up to date. It has references from more than 100
sources, over half from which are researches and historians not from
Azerbaijan – as Strabon, Trever and others annalists. It includes
about 30 articles of the Azerbaijan scientists.

In the edition, also have been published ethnographic monuments of
Karabakh, materials about cult architecture, the Karabakh folklore.
There are also materials with photos “Glory of the Karabakh racers”,
“Shusha – musical capital of Azerbaijan”, ” Pearls of the Karabakh
cuisine”.

The rare maps of region published in magazine “Karabakh: 1747-1805s”
and tables with the demographic parameters, showing dates and number
of the Armenians who have moved to Karabakh, evidently show their
nomadic way of life. All this does not leave doubts that Karabakh is
truly Azerbaijani land.

“The purpose of this special edition is to show reliability of
historical events and the facts about Karabakh, we consider that the
public should know roots of the problem and historical objectivity,
understand, at last, the aggressive policy of the Armenians, which,
not having the territories, using forces of allies, insidiously
annexed our lands”, the editor of magazine Musa Marjanly says.

It is necessary to note that in spite of the fact that magazine
“Karabakh” was published a few days ago, it has already caused big
resonance: the Armenian sources already accuse it of “rewriting
the history”.