Fruit production is quite important, mainly of quince, pear, peach, apricot, fig, almonds, and pomegranate. Nakhchivan is one of the cultural centers of Azerbaijan. to 4000 B.C.E. In 1828, after the last Russo-Persian War and the Treaty of Turkmenchay, the Nakhchivan Khanate passed from Iranian into Imperial Russian possession. Another such site is Makhta Kultepe. "[124], A renewed attempt was planned by PACE inspectors for August 29 – September 6, 2007, led by British MP Edward O'Hara. La population arménienne du Nakhitchevan, estimée à 15 % en 1926 préfère quitter la République socialiste soviétique autonome du Nakhitchevan pour la République socialiste soviétique d'Arménie voisine. But the summer pastures go up on the high-mountain area to an altitude of 2,300–3,200 metres (7,500–10,500 ft). Historically, the Persians, Armenians, Mongols, and Turks competed for the area, but it passed to Russia in 1828, and in 1924 it became an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union. Three-quarters of the grain production, especially winter wheat is concentrated on the irrigated lands of the Sharur plain and in the basin of the Nakhchivan river. Mais cette région est épargnée par la guerre entre ces deux voisins, en partie grâce à la Turquie exerçant le rôle de garant selon les termes du traité de Moscou signé entre les Kémalistes et les Soviétiques en 1921[1]. Hübschmann note toutefois que ce nom n'était pas utilisé sous l'Antiquité et que le nom d'origine était plutôt « Naxcavan ». The conflict soon erupted into the violent Aras War. The Nakhchivan khanate was dissolved in 1828, its territory was merged with the territory of the Erivan khanate and the area became the Nakhchivan uyezd of the new Armenian oblast, which later became the Erivan Governorate in 1849. 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Switzerland-Armenia Parliamentary Group (ed.) When the TDFR was dissolved in May 1918, Nakhchivan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Zangezur (today the Armenian province of Syunik), and Qazakh were heavily contested between the newly formed and short-lived states of the Democratic Republic of Armenia (DRA) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR). The currency is the same = Azerbaijani manat. [27] According to the early medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, from the 3rd to 2nd centuries, the region belonged to the Muratsyan nakharar family but after disputes with central power, King Artavazd I massacred the family and seized the lands and formally attached it to the kingdom. [50], In the final year of World War I, Nakhchivan was the scene of more bloodshed between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, who both laid claim to the area. [24] It became part of the Satrapy of Armenia under Achaemenid Persia c. 521 BC. At any one time, between 70% and 85% of Nakhchivan's population was infected with malaria, and in the region of Norashen (present-day Sharur) almost 100% were struck with the disease. Again, more violence erupted leaving some ten thousand Armenians dead and forty-five Armenian villages destroyed. Nakhchivan Automobile Plant(Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Avtomobil Zavodu), better known as NAZ, is an automobile manufacturer in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. Some Armenian political groupings of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, most notably the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) claim Nakhchivan as part of United Armenia. You do not have to wear Hijab, it is up to you. [68][69][70] The Armenians claimed that the attack was in response to cross-border shelling of Armenian villages by Azeri forces from Nakhchivan. He forced the entire hundreds of thousands of local population—Muslims, Jews and Armenians alike—to leave their homes and move to the provinces south of the Aras River. The region is subject to earthquakes; that of 1931 was particularly severe. The main crops – cotton and tobacco – are cultivated in the PriAraz plain, near Sharur and Nakhchivan City. Chardin, John. According to an Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), the Medieval Armenian cemetery of Jugha (Julfa) in Nakhchivan, with its medieval Armenian headstones called khachkars (2,000 were still extant in the 1980s), was destroyed in 2006. However, the cease-fire lasted only briefly, and by early March 1920, more fighting broke out, primarily in Karabakh between Karabakh Armenians and Azerbaijan's regular army.