"IN BOOK THE HISTORY OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AZERBAIJAN’S FRONTIERS ARE DISTORTED"
Ïðaâî Âûaîða, Azerbaijan
Democratic Azerbaijan
Aug. 24, 2006
"Recently anti-Azerbaijanian forces trying to weaken the State inside,
leaving face to face with problems are activated especially.
Farida Mammadova’s book devoted to the history of Caucasian Albania
is also anti-Azerbaijanian," informed at recent press-conference
Tahmasib Novruzov, chairman of Unity of Freedom Partners.
Speaking at the arrangement Jamil Bahramov, deputy Chairman of the
Institute of History of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
said that the mentioned book is not scientific work: "Farida
Mammadova started working over the book The History of Caucasian
Albania by request of the State, but she did not present her work for
discussion. By instructions of the President of ANAS, Mahmud Karimov,
each book can be published just after the relevant discussion. The
document initiated and signed by M. Karimov consists of 10 points
should be maintained by the latest. But F. Mammadova published book
without presenting to discussion. Thus, we do not know the name of
publisher, and book has not editor and review."
According to J. Bayramov, in book, information of Azerbaijan’s
historical territory as well as its historical frontiers have been
distorted: "The book composed of 798 pages is anti-Azerbaijanian. The
author indicates that Azerbaijani nation unites Caucasian Albans,
Persian-language and Turkic-language peoples. In addition, the book
says Safavi State. In 601st and 602nd pages of book inform that after
the 1828 Turkmenchay Treaty and 1829 Adirna Treaty the tsarist Russia
began resettlement of Armenians to the territory of Azerbaijan.
Furthermore, in 645th page the map of Albania and neighbor countries
in II-I B.C., in which the map of ‘The Great Armenia’ is cited, has
been given. The book gives the map of Armenian scholar Yeremian,
in which there are not signs of Azerbaijan. In F. Mammadova’s map
Ardabil forms a part of ‘The Great Armenia’. In spite of this map
involves II-I B.C., it indicates that in III B.C. Azerbaijan was an
organic part of so called ‘The Great Armenia’. According to historian,
the book cites the map of Armenian eparchy: "The cited toponomy has
neither Azerbaijani, nor Turkic words."
As J. Bayramov informed, F. Mammadova had been worked over the book for
a twice – in 1977 and 1988. But at that time Ziya Bunyadov and Igrar
Aliyev were against its publishing. It is known that the historians
were against third version.
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