Subject: Re: Armenian/Azeri enclaves<br/>
Date: May 18, 2001 @ 13:13<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;grant.l.hutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1500346987"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;Now I&#39;m convinced it is the same enclave. This Armenian fellow has <br/>
&gt;printed the Armenian names (in latin letters) on top of a Russian <br/>
&gt;map. But underneath &#39;Azatamut&#39; I can just about read in <br/>
&gt;Russian &#39;Barkhuda....&#39;<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I&#39;ve seen at least one atlas that applies the name Azatamut to the town <br/>
just east of the enclave (which looks to be called Aigehovit on the <br/>
Armenian maps.) Interestingly, if you do a web search on Azatamut you <br/>
will find it listed as a constituency in Armenian elections, having a <br/>
dialing code in the Armenian phone system, and as a site for companies <br/>
to set up businesses in Armenia. Nowhere in my search (except the <br/>
reference on Rolf&#39;s page) did I find &quot;Azatamut&quot; given as the name of an <br/>
enclave.<br/>
GEOnet has Azatamut as a populated place in Armenia at 40d58m33sN <br/>
45d11m53sE, and Barxudarli/Barkudarly/Barkhudarly as a populated place <br/>
in Azerbaijan at 40d59m36sN 45d13m31sE. This would fit with two towns a <br/>
few km apart, but the Azeri name is *east* of the Armenian name, the <br/>
reverse of anything compatible with the maps! Gah.<br/>
Kyarki is listed as an Azeri name on GEOnet. Tigranashen doesn&#39;t <br/>
appear, but &quot;shen&quot; is definitely an Armenian ending. After my first <br/>
look at these maps I said to Rolf that Kyarki and Tigranashen seemed to <br/>
be the names of two different places, but a closer look shows quotation <br/>
marks around Tigranashen - so I&#39;m pretty nearly certain now that this <br/>
is an Azeri exclave which was given an Armenian name when it was <br/>
occupied by Armenia. Does the same apply to Azatamut/Barxudarli (the <br/>
preferred Azeri spelling, with a dotless terminal i)? If it wasn&#39;t for <br/>
the different coordinates on GEOnet and the astonishing integration of <br/>
Azatamut into the Armenian system (as judged from my web search), I&#39;d <br/>
say yes. As it stands, and with the conflict between coords and maps, I <br/>
just haven&#39;t a clue at present. Has anyone else got any additional <br/>
information?<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>