9781908755353 - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey: Addressing Paradoxes of Culture, Geography and History von Galichian, Rouben (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Summary:"Armenia, as a Christian country, has been a thorn wedged between its two Turkic neighbours, the Republics of Azerbaijan and Turkey. The geographic fact has been the cause of many cultural, political and ethnographic problems arising from it. Following the aims of creating a Pan-Turkic belt of countries stretching from Europe to Central Asia, efforts were made by the Ottoman Turkey to eliminate the presence of Christian Armenians from the region. After independence the authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan have taken this policy to the extreme. These policies have given rise to call he Armenians as newcomers in their historic homeland, where they have lived for over two and half millennia. Every efforts has been made to either appropriate or to demolish Armenian historical monuments. False claims and theories have caused many historical and cultural paradoxes, some of which are addressed in this volume. To this end all the materials used have been mainly taken from non-Armenian sources."--Back cover. contents: 1. A brief glance into the history of the south Caucasus 2. The "Azerbaijan" misnomer 3. Greater and lesser Armenia or Armenia Major and Armenia Minor 4. The name, language, and script of Azerbaijan 5. Armenian highlands or Armenian plateau 6. What and where is Anatolia? 7. The new terminology of "northern", "southern" and "western" Azerbaijan 8. The presence of Armenians in the south Caucasus.