Nakhichevan

Armenian for: The first settling place (relative to Noah who descended from the Ararat Mountain in Armenia). Said to be the oldest of the Armenian cities, Nakhichevan made part of the Ayrarat, Vaspurakan and Siounik provinces of Armenia. In modern times, Nakhichevan was part of the Yerevan Guberniya (1849-1918), and the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920). Following the Treaty of Moscow signed by the Bolshevik Russia and Turkey in 1921, Nakhichevan was forcibly attached to the Soviet Azerbaijan. In 1924, an autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan was formed within the Azerbaijan Soviet Republic. During the Soviet-Azeri rule the region was entirely cleansed of Armenians.

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