From the speech of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the opening of the Tartar Olympic Sports Complex

3 June 2020

The territory of the present Republic of Armenia is ancient Azerbaijani land. It is enought just to study the maps published by tsarist Russia in the early 20th century. Everyone will see that the vast majority of place names throughout the territory of present-day Armenia are of Azerbaijani origin.