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A great number of books in several languages published under the patronage of Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry for agitational reasons were distributed freely to people within Frankfurt Fair a couple of months ago.

“Azerbaijanis publish a book under the state patronage with a cover illustrated by the only Pagan Temple of Armenia ''Garni'' ("Garni, Armenia" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Timothy Darvill. Oxford University Press, 2008), Amberd fortress, it's the name given to the 7th century Armenian fortress located on the slopes of Mount Aragats in the province of Aragatsotn, Armenia, (http://www.armenica.org/cgi-bin/armenica.cgi?=2=bc=1====bcz0000) or Persian Мosque in capital of Armenia Yerevan: all these have nothing common with Azerbaijan”, - Samvel Karapetyan , the head of the organization of the Research on Armenian Architecture says with a dismay, then goes on. “The Etchmiadzin Cathedral, which is the oldest church in the world built in 4th century in the town of Ejmiatsin, Armenia, when Armenia was the only country in the world the state religion of which was Christianity, is presented as a Turkish-Armenian Church on the cover of the book published by Azerbaijanis, the same with Gandzasar monastery which is presented as Turkish-Albanian. While Gandzasar is a 13th century Armenian monastery situated in the Mardakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The monastery was damaged during an Azerbaijani bombing raid in 1991, in which the house of the Father Superior was destroyed, Gandzasar is actively functioning today as a monastery of the Armenian Apostolic Church. (http://www.gandzasar.com/)

The Azerbaijanis books with Historical falsifications are even translated into French and English.

“The most ridiculous thing is that while propagating under the state patronage Azeris do it amateurishly and superficially bringing false factors and motivations. Imagine, all the names of settlements are those which were till 20-30-s in the mentioned books.
Moreover, no hint at the current Republic of Armenia is fixed. Instead, “Western Azerbaijan” is mentioned which is the part of the book as well:”The monuments of Western Azerbaijan” (/«Les Monuments Azerbaijan d'Ouest»/).
“In case with our well-known Noravank (which is a 13th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located 122 km to southeast from capital of Armenia Yerevan) it’s described as an Oghuz Turkish monument of the 13th century in Amaghu village”, - S. Karapetyan says. “Acting in this way, the falsificators totally exclude the root “Armenia” from historical documentaries and evidences. Any remark of Armenia is quoted in these works”.

According to S. Karapetyan Azerbaijani “experts” have brought out an agitational trick for the recent 50-60 years. They launched a campaign of publishing false information, facts and motivations, created made-up stories through foreign scientists purposefully in order to cite their own spread disinformation after decades.
In the result they make a whole history - whether this or that scientist has written about it?
The same trick has been used with Armenian Khachqars (Cross-Stones). Azerbaijanis insist Khachqars are originated from Caucasian Albanians and belong to them.
In this regard Karapetyan says that Azerbaijanis has begun the appropriation of the Christian culture alongside with the distortion of the history in 1960s. “How did it happen that You existing for so long, change your nation name once in every 100 years, that only from 1960s it dawned upon you that the mentioned culture belonged to you and why haven’t you state about that earlier. We knew about those monuments from the day of their creation, as they had been standing on this land for centuries, and now just awaken you appropriate all these to you. It’s not normal”

What refers to “Western Azerbaijan”, its circulation is another trick. Over the fact that our historical monuments are totally ascribed to Azerbaijan in most Azerbaijani websites S. Karapetyan remarked the following. “If anything deals with current Armenia they write Western Azerbaijan. After 40 years we will discover more than 100 books proving that we are living not in historical Armenia but in “Western Azerbaijan”. Azerbaijanis are working out the Albanian thesis in the same way.”They permanently insist that cross-stones are of Albanian origin. The fact is absolutely contradicting to the logic. Whether Albanians lived in Nakhijevan, in Tiflis? Whether Albans lived anywhere? What about the numerous Armenian inscriptions speaking of the opposite. Are you able to eliminate them?” – Karapetyan asks rhetorically.


The Real History of Azerbaijan
“Armenia was to mark the 90th anniversary of Azerbaijan”, - Samvel Karapetyan insists.

Different authors as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, English has made their past and future maps for centuries mentioning such notions as “Armenia minor” and “Armenia major”. Not us but just those authors has named this land Great and Small Armenia. No European has ever used Azerbaijan regarding to any of these maps”, - Samvel Karapetyan, the head of the organization of the Research on Armenian Architecture says. “So let’s state that Azerbaijan is the name of Atrpatakan region of Northern Persia with a center of Tabriz.
The word Azerbaijan has first been used in the region from 1918. Annexing a part from our motherland and naming it after a region from a neighboring state they have established a state. More, they have changed their alphabet for three times in a century. They used to write in Arabic Turkish till the Soviet period, then used Cyrillic Azerbaijani and at last in 1991 chose Latin Turkish.
It is not a century passed since the name “Azerbaijan” is stuck to this land. Last year I suggested to mark the 90th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s foundation to show that it’s only 90 years (1918-2008) your state have existed in this land. Why not? Marking that anniversary we would have informed the world about the real age of Azerbaijan”.


Source “Aravot” daily