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Yagub Mahmudov: "Armenians were resettled from the Balkans to the territory around the Van lake, later they were resettled in Azerbaijan by the Tsarist Russia"

07 February 2014 12:03 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Konul Kamilgizi – APA. “I’m very sorry that today, there are forces in Azerbaijan trying to object when we want to prove with historical evidences how the Armenians have been resettled in Azerbaijan and what they have done. I want to tell these internal forces not to try to asperse the Institute of History and Yagub Mahmudov,” director of the Institute of History of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Yagub Mahmudov told journalists, APA reports.

According to him, these forces should preserve their history and should not leave for abroad after having grown up and got titles in Azerbaijan.

Mahmudov said that the Institute of History has already brought the documents from Berlin, London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Delhi, Istanbul, Ankara and other cities: “The whole world says through all historical evidences that Armenians were resettled in Azerbaijan by the Tsarist Russia. An Armenian province was created in the territory of the former Irevan khanate.”

Director of the Institute of History said Azerbaijan is the owner of the lands, which Armenians claim to be theirs.

He said necessary studies would be continued.

"We are proving some issues to the Armenian historians, who in "Real history and Great Armenia" book call us nomadic people and try to ground that these lands do not belong to us. It is proved that Armenians moved here from the Balkan peninsula. The ethnic group, which are kin to phoenicians in the Balkan peninsula, are comers in Asia and were resettled around the Van lake. Later, they were resettled in the occupied Azerbaijani territories by the Tsarist Russia," he said.