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I have alwasy said that:
There is no point in arguing with you even on this topic because you wouldn't understand anything, but I have to say that the fact that Iran occupied the territories of kartl-kakheti for most of the time from 16th century before 1801 is true. In 1801 russian empire annexed kartl-kakheti in hopes of "political and religious stability".In a recent past most of the Caucasus belonged to the Aryans and was part of the Persian Empire. The republic of Armenia didn't exist and Armenians never lived in the Caucasus.
Later on the Russian Empire conquered Aryan land in the Caucasus from the Persian Empire.
After the genocide, the Russians felt a little bit sorry for the Armenians are repopulated the Armenia refugees from the Armenian Plateau into the current Armenian republic
This is history.
Eastern turks and SE turks are actually closer to kurds than to armenians. Only northeastern turks such as trabzon turks are closer to armenians than to kurds.
Not true.
I have seen many documents how Armenians were Islamized and became Turks and forgot their identity.
What do you mean by not true? by armenian highlands I mean the area between lake van and pontic mountains. This total area also encompasses mount ararat.
That is false. Western armenians have been living in the armenian highlands since their ethnogenesis.
Yeah, that is what I mean. The region you are describing is mostly the Armenian Plateau. But Armenians are NOT from the Caucasus. And the modern republic of Armenia is located in the Caucasus. Not their original land. This is what I mean
Read better. Armenian Highlands/Plateau = historic Armenian lands. Never claimed the otherwise. But after the GENOCIDE most of them disappeared and became Turks.
With the knowledge that I have right now, I agree that the ethnogenesis of armenians happened somewhere around lake van and its surroundings that are also a part of armenian highlands and not southern caucasus
Most of the western armenians migrated to armenia in the later years, but that doesn't mean that there are no armenians in the armenian plateau left
And that is because the Caucasus belonged to the Aryans from the very beginning. Persians lost those lands to the Russians.
Very few left in real Armenia around Ararat. Most of them are Turks now, some of them are even Kurdified..
Caucasus belonged to ibero-caucasian tribes from the very beginning and not to iranic people. Let's end this here.
They retain their ethnic identity by simply being western armenians but as I said before, most of western armenians migrated to modern day armenia
No, since proto-Indo European Maykop era, Trialeti culture, the Medes etc. Caucaus was part of the Aryan people.
No at one point ibero-caucasian people stretched all the way from kuma-manych depression to kura-araxes.
Northern West Iran/Azerbaijan = Caucasus.
I didn't know about this. you are probably right that some turks from armenian highlands might be partly western armenian since their western amrneians ancestors converted to islam and started identifying as turks. However, I don't think that the ones who didn't convert to islam were 100% vanished and killed in western amrneian provinces, because at least after the genocide and after the armenian republic was created, some western armenians left their settlements and moved to armeniaHidden Armenians - Wikipedia
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