“The “Nakhchivan atlas” present in Ruben Vardanyan’s learn about in Khankendi used to be offered to us, and we’re recently inspecting this atlas.”
Publika.az studies that “File” used to be knowledgeable about this by way of the Chairman of “Azerbaijan Cartographers” Public Union Mugabil Bayramov.
He stated that this atlas used to be printed by way of the Armenian Structure Basis in 2012, and the maps incorporated within the atlas are utterly according to forgeries: “Atlas claims that Nakhchivan has all the time been a province of Armenian states and principalities. Those maps are territorial claims in opposition to Azerbaijan. The primary map within the atlas used to be supposedly according to the paintings “Geography” written by way of the Greek philosopher Ptolemy within the II century, the place the names of the puts in “Nice Armenia” got with Armenian toponyms. Then again, it’s been recognized to the clinical neighborhood for a very long time that Ptolemy’s paintings “Geography” has no longer survived to these days, the unique of the paintings used to be misplaced within the IV century, and one among its variations used to be discovered simplest 1000 years later, and that model used to be translated two times into Latin in a kind that doesn’t totally fit every different.
Muqabil Bayramov additionally stated that Nakhchivan territory used to be marked with crimson traces on a lot of falsified maps within the atlas with none foundation: “This atlas is an inexpensive propaganda subject matter to justify the alleged ancient legitimacy of territorial claims in opposition to Azerbaijan with forgeries. Cartography is a major box, it can’t be changed into a device for political video games. It’s thought-provoking, why is Vardanyan so fascinated by Nakhchivan?! “It sort of feels that the anti-terrorist operation of the Azerbaijani Military in September 2023 left a large number of need in his center.”
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