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Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-10-13): The deliberate destruction of Armenian monuments is key to Azerbaijan’s claims to historical ownership of the disputed territories of Nakhchivan and Nagorno-Karabakh. By bulldozing historic sites and virtually erasing Armenian history in these regions, Azerbaijan’s Aliev regime has weaponized cultural heritage. The regime believes that without historic evidence of the Armenian people in these regions, Armenians will have no claim to the land. [...] Silent Erasure is a detailed, 269 page study on the elimination of monuments in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Nakhchivan has a very lengthy history of multi-ethnic occupation by both Christian Armenians and Muslim Azeris. The enclave is located to the west of and physically separated from Azerbaijan proper, bordered by Armenia to the east and north, Iran to the southwest, and Turkey to the west. The researchers, with good reason, fear that the elimination of Armenian heritage in Nakhchivan/Nakhichevan will be repeated in Nagorno-Karabakh, once an independent Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan territory known as the Republic of Artsakh.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2005-09-08): Full name: Autonomous Republic [...] The Constitution of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic was adopted on 12 November 1995. [...] The state symbols of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan are the flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the coat of arms of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the national anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-08): While reporting from the South Caucasus has recently focused on Azerbaijan’s victory in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it is important to recognise the renewed importance of the Nakhchivan region. This autonomous republic is quickly becoming a key part of regional politics. [...] A little-known autonomous republic within Azerbaijan is another consequence of the Stalinist regime’s policy of "divide and conquer". Having regained control of Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku has not hesitated to express its desire for a direct link with its exclave Nakhchivan, an intention that complicates relations with the EU and western partners. [...] However, the Soviets held a referendum in 1921, in which 90 per cent of the Nakhchivan population voted to remain part of the Azerbaijani SSR. The result was confirmed by the treaty of March 16th 1921 between Turkey and Soviet Russia. From 1924, it became an autonomous republic within the Azerbaijani SSR. During the Soviet period, the region’s Azerbaijani population continued to grow steadily, while the Armenian minority decreased from 15 per cent in 1926 to 1.4 per cent in 1979.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2017-10-04): Azerbaijan’s Militarization and the Status of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic [...] On the other side of the picture is the geographical isolation of Nakhichevan, which carries its own risks for Azerbaijan in any resumption of hostilities. While the militarization of the exclave allows for a potential strike against strategic targets in Armenia, this would come at the cost of a massive retaliation from the Armenian side. It would therefore be unwise for Azerbaijan to sacrifice the whole region in the hope of getting Turkey involved or in the hope of diverting Armenian troops away from Nagorno-Karabakh. Nakhichevan’s geographical isolation would provide Armenia with an easy opportunity to fire into Nakhichevan from vantage points held by its military. It would also allow Armenian troops to easily seize mountain-top posts of the exclave as a buffer, as was seen in 2014 when Armenian troops established control over previously unmanned heights inside Syunik in the Nakhichevan direction during a well-planned surprise night raid.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-01-05): Azerbaijan - Competent Authority (Art. 6) [...] - The Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic has been authorized to issue apostilles to the documents executed in the territory of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of the Republic of Azerbaijan This page was last updated on:
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): I. Nakhichevan Autonomous state is a democratic, legal, secular autonomous republic within the Republic of Azerbaijan. [...] The territory of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is common within the state borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan, inviolable and indivisible. [...] II. Prosecutor"s Office of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is an integral centralized body based on subordination of territorial prosecutors to Prosecutor of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic and to General Prosecutor of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-06-07): BACKGROUND: Reinstating the transport link between mainland Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is specifically mentioned in article 9 of the November 10, 2020 ceasefire agreement, which Azerbaijan and Armenia signed to end the latest war in Nagorno-Karabakh. The article contains general provisions about unblocking all economic transport routes across the region but only the Azerbaijan-Nakhichevan link is directly mentioned. This route, which is commonly called the Meghri corridor in Armenia and the Zangezur corridor in Azerbaijan, goes through Armenia’s Syunik province and the country is obliged to guarantee safe and free passage of people and goods. The transit route will be overseen by the Russian border service. Moreover, the November 10 accord envisages construction of transport infrastructure that will connect the Nakhichevan exclave with Azerbaijan. For Azerbaijan, this agreement is indeed a breakthrough as it promises to restore a direct land passage to Nakhichevan. The exclave has been largely isolated since the first Karabakh war in the early 1990s, when the old Soviet railway link between Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan through southern Armenia to was terminated. The abandoned infrastructure is now mostly in a state of disrepair. Reviving the old transportation link will also have profound geopolitical reverberations. Azerbaijan does not have a direct land connection with its largest ally, Turkey. Only Nakhichevan has a short, 11-kilometer border with Turkey. Uninhibited land passage from Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan proper will give Turkey a gateway to the Caspian Basin and Central Asia. This awards Ankara new economic opportunities in the South Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the opportunity to strengthen ties with Turkic peoples inhabiting these regions.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-01): The project will support rehabilitation and modernization of the irrigation and drainage networks serving about 23,230 ha land in Nakhchovan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan. The project will also help strengthen institutional capacity of the irrigation system management including support to water user associations. The project will include two indicative outputs: (i) irrigation and drainage infrastructure improved and/or constructed; and (ii) capacity of State Amelioration and Water Managmeent Committee (SAWMC) and water users associations (WUAs) in irrigation and project management improved. [...] Agriculture, natural resources and rural development / Agricultural drainage - Irrigation - Rural water policy, institutional and capacity development - Gender - Effective gender mainstreaming - Description - The project will support rehabilitation and modernization of the irrigation and drainage networks serving about 23,230 ha land in Nakhchovan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan. The project will also help strengthen institutional capacity of the irrigation system management including support to water user associations. The project will include two indicative outputs: (i) irrigation and drainage infrastructure improved and/or constructed; and (ii) capacity of State Amelioration and Water Managmeent Committee (SAWMC) and water users associations (WUAs) in irrigation and project management improved.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-03): The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası, pronounced [nɑxtʃɯˈvɑn muxˈtɑɾ ɾesˈpublikɑsɯ])[2] is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The region covers 5,502.75 km2 (2,124.62 sq mi)[3] with a population of 459,600.[4] It is bordered by Armenia[a] to the east and north, Iran[b] to the southwest, and Turkey[c] to the west. It is the sole autonomous republic of Azerbaijan, governed by its own elected legislature. [...] - ^ Noah's Ark: Its Final Berth Archived March 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine by Bill Crouse - ^ "Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic". nakhchivan.preslib.az. Retrieved June 14, 2017. [...] External links - Official website of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic - Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic - Nakhchivan Guide - Silent Erasure - A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-25): TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — After Azerbaijan's military offensive regained full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, another dispute is looming on the horizon with Armenia: the territory of Nakhchivan. Like Nagorno-Karabakh, where the Armenian population felt cut off from the country of Armenia, Nakhchivan is territorially separated from the rest of Azerbaijan. [...] In December, Azerbaijan imposed a blockade of the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, alleging that the Armenian government was using the road for mineral extraction and illicit weapons shipments to the region’s separatist forces. Armenia charged that the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh’s approximately 120,000 people.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Nakhchivan (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Azerbaijani pronunciation: [nɑxtʃɯˈvɑn]; Armenian: Նախիջևան, romanized: Nakhijevan) is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a true exclave of Azerbaijan, located 450 km (280 mi) west of Baku. The municipality of Nakhchivan consists of the city of Nakhchivan, the settlement of Əliabad and the villages of Başbaşı, Bulqan, Haciniyyət, Qaraçuq, Qaraxanbəyli, Tumbul, Qarağalıq, and Daşduz.[2] It is spread over the foothills of Zangezur Mountains, on the right bank of the Nakhchivan River at an altitude of 873 m (2,864 ft) above sea level. [...] It was decided that Nakhchivan would be granted to Armenia on 6 April 1919, and the city was annexed on 6 June 1919,[34] however, some months later the city became the center of a regional Muslim uprising and pogrom against its Armenian inhabitants.[35] Britain, France, Italy, and the US, with approval from Armenia and Azerbaijan, agreed on 25 October 1919 to appoint American Colonel Edmond D. Daily as General-Governor of Nakhchivan, elections would be held, and both Armenia and Azerbaijan would withdraw its forces from the territory.[36] However, in March 1920, Turkish forces led by Kâzım Karabekir occupied Nakhchivan.[33]
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-26): In the past few days there has been a steady stream of ethnic Armenians fleeing the contested region of Narogno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan launched a 24-hour assault on the Armenian enclave, which is surrounded by Azerbaijani territory, on September 19 and, following a ceasefire brokered the following day, refugees have been allowed to leave via the narrow Lachin corridor, which connects the enclave with Armenia. As of September 27, it was estimated that nearly 30,000 people had made the crossing since it was opened on September 24. It is expected that many of the estimated 120,000 Karabakhi Armenians will leave for Armenia. Meanwhile, at least 68 people were killed and about 350 injured in an explosion at a petrol station in the enclave’s main highway out of Stepanakert, its capital. [...] Azerbaijan has not achieved all of its goals yet. It aims to open direct ground links to its enclave embedded in Armenia, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, which has a population of just under 450,000. This would also give mainland Azerbaijan direct access to Turkey rather than transit routed through Iran.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-20): The rugged landscape of the South Caucasus had made Nakhchivan a natural corridor linking Yerevan to Baku and Teheran. But politics in its most detestable form transformed it into an exclave – a territory under the sovereignty of a nation from which it is separated by a country or a body of water. It is cut off from Azerbaijan to the north and east by a mountain range belonging to the Armenian enemy, known as Zangezur. On its southwestern flank, the Aras River forms the border with Iran, a neighbor with which Baku maintains a checkered relationship. The only land route linking Nakhichevan to the rest of Azerbaijan ran through Iran, making a detour of several hundred kilometers to avoid skirting the Armenian border. Teheran cut off this route at the time of the 2020 war.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-12-06): Answer 8. The territories of Nakhichevan are one of the Armenian cultural cradles. The Goght‘an Province is not only famous as a motherland of Armenian songs and music but also a divine place, where Mesrop Mashtots‘ came up with the idea to create the Armenian national alphabet, scripts, schools, and literature. The place, where the people handed down the literature by word of mouth accompanied with the music of bambirs (Armenian national musical instrument) over centuries, the same songs of troubadours in the same place became the reason to create Armenian letters and write literature in the Armenian script. Mashtots‘ founded here the first scriptoria, pursuing a deeper Armenization policy.[41]Armenian architectural buildings, strongholds, bridges, caravansary, churches, chapels, khach‘k‘ars, and other monuments in the territory of Nakhichevan are a museum in the open sky. St. Thomas Monastery, St. Christopher Church, and the Church of the Holy Mother of God have been known since the 4th century.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-11): Located just north of the Aras River and the Iranian border, Meghri is hemmed in by Azerbaijani territory. To the east lies Azerbaijan proper, whose border with Armenia has been shut since 1991. Roughly six miles to the west lies Nakhchivan, a landlocked Azerbaijani exclave that Baku has long dreamed of connecting to its mainland. A sliver of Nakhchivan borders Turkey. [...] Azerbaijan, meanwhile, is pressuring Yerevan for unfettered access to the corridor, aiming to reopen the old Soviet railroad from Baku to Nakhchivan, as well as a highway for cars. It has already begun constructing infrastructure in preparation for the route. [...] Baku insists these fears are unfounded. Elin Suleymanov, Baku’s ambassador to Britain, said that those fearing Azerbaijani military action were living in "a paranoid dreamworld" and that Azerbaijan had no military objectives on Armenia’s territory.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Armenian political claims to Nakhchivan [edit]Some Armenian political groupings of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, most notably the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) claim Nakhchivan as part of United Armenia. The ARF programme for example states: The borders of United Armenia shall include all territories designated as Armenia by the Treaty of Sèvres as well as the regions of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), Javakhk, and Nakhchivan.[40] However, Nakhchivan is not officially claimed by the government of Armenia. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan claimed in december of 2006 that as the legal successor to the Armenian SSR, Armenia is loyal to the Treaty of Kars which created the Nakhchivan ASSR as part of the Azerbaijan SSR, however that Turkey's actions call into question the validity of the treaty.[41]
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-11): Nakhchivan - Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic , known simply as Nakhichevan, is a landlocked exclave of ► Azerbaijan . The 5,500 km² region borders ► Armenia (221 km), ► Turkey (9 km) and ► Iran (179 km). Its capital is Nakhichevan City, home to the Nakhichevan State University. Autonomous republic of Azerbaijan [...] Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1930.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-09-18): A yearlong investigation by a team of scholars affiliated with Cornell and Purdue universities has documented a pattern of deliberate obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhichevan, a historically Armenian region that became part of Azerbaijan following the Sovietization of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan between 1920 and 1921. The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified 108 medieval and early modern Armenian monasteries, churches, and cemeteries in Nakhichevan that were completely destroyed between 1997 and 2011 — an eradication described by the report’s authors as a "striking portrait of cultural erasure that, in its surgical precision, totality, and surreptitiousness, has few parallels." [...] Nakhichevan is now an exclave at the intersection of Armenia, Iran, and Turkey, separated from Azerbaijan by the southern Armenian region of Syunik. [...] The "meticulously collected data" explains "why so many of us are continuously alarmed about Azerbaijan’s genocidal plans concerning the fate of medieval Armenian monuments that came under its control in 2020," Maghakyan added. He noted, however, that the CHW report does not present convincing evidence that the destruction campaign in Nakhichevan lasted until 2011. "The administrative deadline, decreed by local autocrat VasifTalibov, for the official ‘passportization’ (cultural erasure) of the region’s monuments was December 31, 2006." Talibov has ruled the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic since 1993.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-05-07): What Is The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic? The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) is an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan. It covers 2,100 sq miles and is separated from Azerbaijan by southern Armenia. It is landlocked and borders Armenia to the north and the east, Iran to the west and the south, and Turkey to the northwest. NAR has a population of about 453,000 and Nakhchivan City is the capital. The region that is now Nakhchivan was part of Iran's Safavid Dynasty in the mid and late 16th century. It was awarded to Imperial Russia in 1828 after the Russo Persian War. In 1917, the region revolted against Imperial Russia and was placed under the rule of a provisional government. In May 1918, Nakhchivan, Zangezur, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Qazakh were contested by the newly-formed States of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia. The Ottoman Empire occupied the territory in June 1918 but pulled out and paved the way for a British occupation in adherence to the Armistice of Monroe. The Bolsheviks seized the land in 1920 and declared it an autonomous republic while upholding close ties with Azerbaijan. In 1990, it declared independence from the Soviet Union in protest against the marginalization of nationalistic movements in Azerbaijan. A year later, Nakhchivan declared itself an autonomous region of Azerbaijan governed by a democratically elected legislature. The region is still recovering from the Armenian-Azerbaijan war that saw Armenia annex part of its territory.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-03-09): The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, known simply as Nakhichevan, is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. [...] In July 1920, the Eleventh Soviet Red Army invaded, and on July 28 declared the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic with "close ties" to the Azerbaijan SSR. In November, on the verge of taking over Armenia, the Bolsheviks, in order to attract public support, promised they would allot Nakhichevan to Armenia, along with Karabakh and Zangezur. Vladimir Lenin did not agree and called for the people of Nakhichevan to be consulted in a referendum, held in early 1921. In that referendum, 90 percent of Nakhichevan's population wanted to be included in the Azerbaijan SSR as an autonomous republic. The decision to make Nakhichevan a part of modern-day Azerbaijan was cemented March 16, 1921 in the Treaty of Moscow between the Soviet Union and the newly founded Republic of Turkey. This agreement also called for attachment of the former Sharur-Daralagez uyezd (which had a solid Azeri majority) to Nakhichevan, thus allowing Turkey to share a border with the Azerbaijan SSR. This deal was reaffirmed on October 23, in the Treaty of Kars. So, on February 9, 1924, the Soviet Union officially established the Nakhichevan ASSR. Its constitution was adopted on April 18, 1926.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-25): After Azerbaijan’s military offensive regained full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, another dispute is looming on the horizon with Armenia: the territory of Nakhchivan Show all 4After Azerbaijan's military offensive regained full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, another dispute is looming on the horizon with Armenia: the territory of Nakhchivan. Like Nagorno-Karabakh, where the Armenian population felt cut off from the country of Armenia, Nakhchivan is territorially separated from the rest of Azerbaijan.
Claim: Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a territory of Armenia (Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-25): TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — After Azerbaijan’s military offensive regained full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, another dispute is looming on the horizon with Armenia: the territory of Nakhchivan. [...] Like Nagorno-Karabakh, where the Armenian population felt cut off from the country of Armenia, Nakhchivan is territorially separated from the rest of Azerbaijan. [...] In December, Azerbaijan imposed a blockade of the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, alleging that the Armenian government was using the road for mineral extraction and illicit weapons shipments to the region’s separatist forces. Armenia charged that the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh’s approximately 120,000 people.