Back Then, Even Baku Was a Persian-Speaking Settlement Where Armenians Already Resided – Iranologist

Iranologist Vardan Voskanyan stated: "The dictator of the artificial formation known as Azerbaijan babbles about the so-called 'historical Azerbaijani territory of Western Zangezur,' referring to Syunik. The fact is that even Absheron is not a historical Azerbaijani territory because, when the Russian Empire conquered it from Iran, there was only one Turkic-speaking settlement in that peninsula called 'Tyurkan' (Persian for 'Turks'), and even Baku was a Persian-speaking settlement where, by the way, Armenians had already settled."