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Yuri Merzlyakov - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Look here please, I think it could be interesting for you. --Quantum666 (talk) 07:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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REMOVING SOURCED MATERIALS IS THE SINE NON QUON OF VANDALISM - PLEASE REFRAIN

You have removed a citation to a scholarly text hundreds of years old attesting to Azeri History, confirmed by the University of Leiden (in Holland), that attests to Azerbaijan being a part of Persia (Iran), for example:

Persians are a people whose borders are the Mahat Mountains and Azerbaijan up to Armenia and Aran, and Bayleqan and Darband, and Ray and Tabaristan and Masqat and Shabaran and Jorjan and Abarshahr, and that is Nishabur, and Herat and Marv and other places in land of Khorasan, and Sejistan and Kerman and Fars and Ahvaz...All these lands were once one kingdom with one sovereign and one language...although the language differed slightly. The language, however, is one, in that its letters are written the same way and used the same way in composition. There are, then, different languages such as Pahlavi, Dari, Azeri, as well as other Persian languages.^[1]

YOU RE-WRITING HISTORY WITH UN-SOURCED MATERIALS - AND VANDALIZING CITATIONS, please state your reasoning for doing that in several articles. Thank you.

rjbronnRjbronn (talk) 20:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV dispute [HISTORY OF AZERBAIJAN] - PLEASE STOP VANDALIZING & DISCUSS EACH POINT

NPOV dispute [HISTORY OF AZERBAIJAN]

RfC: IS REMOVING SOURCED MATERIAL VANDALISM AND DISRUPTIVE EDITING WHERE IT IS REPLACED WITH UNSOURCED MATERIAL?

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Is the photograph in the "History" section relevant to the article? Rjbronn (talk) 23:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was encouraged by an administrator to "be active and bold in improving the article" - in accordance with wiki policy.

I have not given my personal point of view: Rather I have cited to scholarly texts showing each of the following facts: (1) prior to the 20th Century and for thousands of years Azerbaijan was Persian Territory; (2) Every map prior to the 20th Century shows Azerbaijan as being a part of Persian (Iranian territory); (3) Most Azeris live in Iran (20-25 million); (4) Russian military invasion in the 20th century led to Persian-Azerbaijan being split - the original Azerbaijan still exists in Iran as is larger in population and land mass than the small territory recently named "The Republic of Azerbaijan" (a/k/a "New Azerbaijan).

THESE ARE FACTS - NOT MY PERSONAL OPINION:

(a) Pars-Abad (پارس آباد), (“City of Persians”) is in the province of Azerbaijan *Wikimapia

(b) Ancient scholarly texts (also confirmed in the modern period by the University of Leiden in Holland) state that Azerbaijan is Persian territory -- this is not my personal opinion:

“

The Persians are a people whose borders are the Mahat Mountains and Azerbaijan up to Armenia and Aran, and Bayleqan and Darband, and Ray and Tabaristan and Masqat and Shabaran and Jorjan and Abarshahr, and that is Nishabur, and Herat and Marv and other places in land of Khorasan, and Sejistan and Kerman and Fars and Ahvaz...All these lands were once one kingdom with one sovereign and one language...although the language differed slightly. The language, however, is one, in that its letters are written the same way and used the same way in composition. There are, then, different languages such as Pahlavi, Dari, Azeri, as well as other Persian languages.^[2]

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(c) The oldest land named Azerbaijan was a part of the Persian (Iranian) territory and exists to this day. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT MAPS: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xhnbIR6xJK4/SBSc6iO2n6I/AAAAAAAAA64/0Qbc004nUn4/s1600-h/IranianAzeris.jpg

(d) The Colliers Encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%27s_Encyclopedia) is a reputable source. In Volume 3, of The Colliers Encyclopedia, Professor Tadeusz Swietochowski, an Honorary Doctor of Baku State University and Member of Central Eurasian Studies Society, with an academic specialization in the history of Azerbaijan states: “From the time of ancient Media and the Persian Empire (9th to 4th centuries B.C.), Azerbaijan usually shared the history of what is now Iran (Persia).”

rjbronnRjbronn (talk) 23:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

^ (Al Mas'udi, Kitab al-Tanbih wa-l-Ishraf, De Goeje, M.J. (ed.), Leiden, Brill, 1894, pp. 77–8)
^ (Al Mas'udi, Kitab al-Tanbih wa-l-Ishraf, De Goeje, M.J. (ed.), Leiden, Brill, 1894, pp. 77–8)

[1] (Al Mas'udi, Kitab al-Tanbih wa-l-Ishraf, De Goeje, M.J. (ed.), Leiden, Brill, 1894, pp. 77–8)

[2] (Al Mas'udi, Kitab al-Tanbih wa-l-Ishraf, De Goeje, M.J. (ed.), Leiden, Brill, 1894, pp. 77–8)

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