Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Armenian/Azeri enclaves
Date: May 19, 2001 @ 15:43
Author: Rolf Palmberg LI ("Rolf Palmberg LI" <rpalmber@...>)
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I found this info on Brady Kiesling's Rediscovering Armenia
site (1999 version): "Tigranashen, until 1990 the Azerbaijani enclave of Kyarki, is now inhabited by a mixture of local Armenians and refugees from Azerbaijan."

Rolf


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From: "Grant Hutchison" <grant.l.hutchison@...>
Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:13:28 +0100

>>Now I'm convinced it is the same enclave. This Armenian fellow has
>>printed the Armenian names (in latin letters) on top of a Russian
>>map. But underneath 'Azatamut' I can just about read in
>>Russian 'Barkhuda....'
>I've seen at least one atlas that applies the name Azatamut to the town
>just east of the enclave (which looks to be called Aigehovit on the
>Armenian maps.) Interestingly, if you do a web search on Azatamut you
>will find it listed as a constituency in Armenian elections, having a
>dialing code in the Armenian phone system, and as a site for companies
>to set up businesses in Armenia. Nowhere in my search (except the
>reference on Rolf's page) did I find "Azatamut" given as the name of an
>enclave.
>GEOnet has Azatamut as a populated place in Armenia at 40d58m33sN
>45d11m53sE, and Barxudarli/Barkudarly/Barkhudarly as a populated place
>in Azerbaijan at 40d59m36sN 45d13m31sE. This would fit with two towns a
>few km apart, but the Azeri name is *east* of the Armenian name, the
>reverse of anything compatible with the maps! Gah.
>Kyarki is listed as an Azeri name on GEOnet. Tigranashen doesn't
>appear, but "shen" is definitely an Armenian ending. After my first
>look at these maps I said to Rolf that Kyarki and Tigranashen seemed to
>be the names of two different places, but a closer look shows quotation
>marks around Tigranashen - so I'm pretty nearly certain now that this
>is an Azeri exclave which was given an Armenian name when it was
>occupied by Armenia. Does the same apply to Azatamut/Barxudarli (the
>preferred Azeri spelling, with a dotless terminal i)? If it wasn't for
>the different coordinates on GEOnet and the astonishing integration of
>Azatamut into the Armenian system (as judged from my web search), I'd
>say yes. As it stands, and with the conflict between coords and maps, I
>just haven't a clue at present. Has anyone else got any additional
>information?
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>Grant
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