Azerbaijani historian, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijani SSR, Doctor of Historical Sciences Pusta (Pustakhanum) Azizaga kiziz Azizbekov wrote in his book “State Activities of Mashadi Azizbekov”:
“The territory of the republic currently called Azerbaijan has nothing in common with the historical Atrpatakan, the northern regions of Iran, from which the Turks simply took the name, creating this artificial bourgeois republic in 1918.
Secondly, until the 14th-15th centuries, when Turkmen tribes penetrated the region, and even more so until the 11th century, when the Seljuk Turks first appeared in the region, to speak of any Turkish name or Turkish element in our region is at least unfounded.
In Eastern Armenia, Georgia, Eastern Transcaucasia and Northern Iran, there was neither a Turkish name nor a Turkish element.
Starting from the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, to Atrpatakan, Sheki, Shirvan, the entire territory of Eastern Armenia – Utik, Artsakh, Paytakaran provinces of Greater Armenia, bore Armenian or Persian names, and were inhabited by Armenians.
To speak of any Turkic element before the 11th century contradicts science and history.
Until the 14th-15th centuries, when Turkmen tribes penetrated Eastern Armenia and Eastern Transcaucasia, especially until the 11th century, when Turkic tribes first appeared in the form of the Seljuk Turks, there was no Turkish element in this region.
Separate Turks appeared in the region in the 9th century, when the Arabs hired Turkish soldiers, among whom was, for example, the famous commander Bugha, who in the middle of the 9th century invaded Armenia: Vaspurakan, Syunik, Artsakh and suffered a heavy defeat, especially in Artsakh, near the Ktish fortress (854) from Prince Yesayi Abu Musa.
In general, the process of Turkification of place names in Eastern Armenia and Eastern Transcaucasia began in the 14th-15th centuries. , when Turkmen tribes established their dominance here. For example, the Iranian-speaking population of northern Iran gradually became Turkic-speaking.
This Turkic-speaking population later, at the end of the 15th century, gave life to the Iranian Safavid state. The Safavids, being Persians, spoke Turkish. And, of course, this phenomenon was also observed in Eastern Armenia.
But this does not mean that these places were not Armenian before, in the 14th-15th centuries. Earlier, especially in the 11th century, it was impossible to find a Turkish name in this region.
The Turkification of place names during this period took place in a typical primitive style of nomads, corresponding to their low intellectual abilities.
The Turks gave this area the name of what they saw. For example, if there was muddy water, they said “Kara-Su”, or if they saw three churches, it became “Uch Kilise”, if they saw four churches, “Dort Kilise”, etc.
Then it began: iqi-bir, shash-mish…
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