{"id":4065,"date":"2020-10-28T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T08:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qarabag.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T06:24:44","slug":"how-great-armenia-was-created-in-the-caucasus-10-little-known-facts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/how-great-armenia-was-created-in-the-caucasus-10-little-known-facts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u00abGreat Armenia\u00bb was created in the Caucasus: 10 little-known facts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. In 1722-1723, Russia began its first expansion in the East. At the same time, the Russians focused on Eastern Christians. Thus\u00a0the idea was developed to create Armenian kingdom. It would offer a staging ground for the Russian advance to Asia.\n

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  2. In 1724, the Russian Emperor Peter I proposed a plan for the mass resettlement of Armenians from Asia Minor to the South Caucasus for \u00abstrengthening Christianity in the territory and displacing Muslims to the extent possible\u00bb.\n

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  3. Karabakh was originally chosen for the creation of the Armenian staging ground of Russia. In 1784, Prince Potemkin planned to overthrow the Muslim Khan there and \u00abput a ruler of Armenians in his place\u00bb.\n

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  4. As a result of the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828, Russia captured the Erivan and Nakhchivan Khanates. Immediately after, the mass resettlement of Armenians in the South Caucasus began.\n

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  5. Between 1828 and 1830, about 140,000 Armenians moved from Iran and Turkey. They settled in Karabakh, Nakhichevan and Erivan.\n

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  6. The Russian authorities created the most favourable conditions for Armenian settlers. They were given the best lands forcing out the turks; migrants were completely exempt from taxes; poor settlers were given huge assistance at the time in the amount of 25 roubles. The Russian authorities supported the Armenians in most conflicts with the indigenous Muslim population.\n

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  7. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-79, about 200,000 Armenians were resettled from Asia Minor to the South Caucasus.\n

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  8. The Armenian riots in Turkey (1893-1894) had led to another influx\u00a0of immigrants into the Caucasus.\n

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  9. Over the period 1896 and 1908 alone, more than 300,000 Armenians settled in the South Caucasus.\n

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  10. In 1911, more than a million of the 1,300,000 Armenians in the South Caucasus were not indigenous.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The publication Who brought masses of Armenians to the Southern Caucaus? (documentary evidence)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0contains more detailed information as well as scans of documents confirming the above-mentioned facts.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    In 1722-1723, Russia began its first expansion in the East. At the same time, the Russians focused on Eastern Christians. Thus\u00a0the idea was developed to create Armenian kingdom. It would offer a staging ground for the Russian advance to Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1249],"tags":[1716,1702,1706,1708,1704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}