From the speech of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the opening ceremony of a new secondary school building in Yevlakh

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From the speech of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the opening ceremony of a new secondary school building in Yevlakh

14 October 2010

I have repeatedly said that today’s Armenia – the territory called the Republic of Armenia – is the ancient land of Azerbaijan. It is true. Of course, Zangezur, Iravan Khanate are our lands! Azerbaijanis lived there for centuries. Armenians inhabited only certain regions. But they began to settle en masse in the 19th century.