TITLE:
To Whom Belongs the Land? Confrontation in Karabakh: On the Origin of the Albanian Arsacids Dynasty
AUTHORS:
Ramin Alizadeh, Tahmina Aslanova, Ilia Brondz
KEYWORDS:
Karabakh, Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Arshakids, Arsak, Albania, National Liberation War
JOURNAL NAME:
Voice of the Publisher,
Vol.7 No.1,
March
12,
2021
ABSTRACT: The escalation of the Karabakh conflict during late 2020 and the
resumption of the second Karabakh War—as a result of the provocative actions by
the Armenian government and its puppet regime, the so-called “Artsakh
Republic”—have aroused the renewed interest of the scientific community in the
historical origins of the territory over which Azerbaijan and Armenia have been
fighting for many years. There is no consensus among scientific experts on this
conflict’s causes or even its course, and the factual details and their
interpretation remain under discussion. However, there are six resolutions by
the United Nations Security Council that recognize the disputed territories as
Azerbaijan’s national territory. This paper presents the historical,
linguistic, and juridical facts that support the claim of Azerbaijan to these
territories. The second war in Nagorno-Karabakh is a national liberation war
for Azerbaijan.