Novruz is ancient holiday in Azerbaijan. It was New Year in the past, till we start to use Gregorian calendar. It is the most beloved holiday in Azerbaijan. We celebrate it three days. But untill Novruz holiday comes we are celebrating last four Tuesdays which we call Charshanba.
The map included to this blogpost was published in 1910 in Saint Petersburg, the capital of Russian empire. "A. F. Marks spciety" made big geographical atlas. It was named "Mark's Big World Table Atlas". That included in itself many maps of those times. Why we show this map in post. The main reason is that when we observe in this map - which were made by Russian geographers in Saint Petersburg - toponyms of modern Armenia are all in Azerbaijani language. There is no any Armenian words in the map in 1910. After Soviet occupatian of Azerbaijan, and creating Armenia SSR in the lands of Azerbaijan these toponyms were changed and armenized. The map is being exhibited in the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan.
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