TREATY BETWEEN THE KHAN OF QARABAGH AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE ON TRANSFER OF THE QARABAGH KHANATE TO RUSSIA

May 14, 1805

Introduction Over the last decade the Armenians all over the world have made their utmost to spread the stereotype about Nagorno-Karabakh (Qarabagh) being a "historically Armenian land". Armenia has launched an open war upon her neighbor, Azerbaijan, and occupied 20% of the Azerbaijani territory. Armenians justified their aggressive intentions by arguing that Qarabagh had always been Armenian. However, the historical facts represent the incontrovertible evidence of the contrary.

The Gulistan Treaty of October 12, 1813, and the Turkmenchay Treaty of February 10, 1828, signed between Russia and Iran as well as the Treaty of May 14, 1805, signed between Ibrahim Khan of Qarabagh and the Russian General Tsitsianov on the transfer of the Khanate under Russia's dominion vividly demonstrate that the empire was gaining exclusively the Azerbaijani lands. None of these documents contains any mentioning of Armenians or Armenian estates in the region.

Taking into account the factual value of the Treaty of 1805 for the confirmation of the inalienable rights for their primordial lands, we publish its original copy which is kept in the Central Historical Archive of the Azerbaijan Republic (File 130, list 1, folder 4, pp.245-248). The Treaty was published in "The Acts of the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission" in Tiflis (Tbilisi) in 1868 (Volume 2, p.705).

We think that the publication of this document will prove a good answer to the Armenian "historians" and their paid advocates.

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