Caucasus - is a cradle of ancient civilisations, created by people inhabited this territory, which preserved rich material and cultural legacy of ancient state Albania. Azerbaijan is a heir of Cauc...
Caucasus - is a cradle of ancient civilisations, created by people inhabited this territory, which preserved rich material and cultural legacy of ancient state Albania. Azerbaijan is a heir of Caucasian Albania and subsequent formations at its territory, and Albanians are the ones of ancestors of Azerbaijan nation. The most ancient Christian church in Caucasus - is Albanian church Kish, established in 1 -2 century A.D by apostle Elysee in Sheki region, and also temples Gandzasar and Amaras in Karabagh are still remained uptoday at places where at present live descendants of gunns, gels, alpnas, legs and udins.
Albanian architecture of Karabagh.
Karabagh is the most beuatiful and plenty land of Azerbaijan Republic. History of Karabagh starts from its deep anciency - land between two rivers Kura and Arax is one of most ancient centres of civilisation. There are a lot of facts which allow to suppose that this territory together with areas of the Meditteranean countries and Africa included in zone of humanity's motherland, that here also was a development of human being, as biosocial and social creature. And just here, in Azikh cave, were discovered the most ancient signs of life and human's activity. Owing to materials, discovered discovered in this cave, we start our history from very ancient period - age of ancient stony century (paleolith), more than 1 million years before. In Azikh was discovered a fragment of woman's jaw, lived approximately 350-400 thousand years before, what has a great significance. No doubt, that creators of Azikh culture already had mentality and developing speech, and also some elements of spiritual culture. Azikh human (azikhantrop) already knew what is the fire, arithmetic, had some initial notions about environment, at the base of which the religion originates. We have a suffiecient base to suppose, that azikhantrop has more than 300 hundred years before cosmological observations and etc. Karabakh's culture of Bronze Age and early Iron Age is reflected in funeral monuments. Monuments of this period prove close contacts wit southern countries. Bronze century brought many important changes. Especially it is seen from labour production increase. Develops half nomadic stock-breeding , crop-growing, craft, especially metallurgical production, ceramic work and etc. Second half of II- beginning of I thousand year B.C. - late Bronze Age and beginning of Iron century at the territory of Southern Caucusus, characterised by prosperity of metallurgy of the region which we are interested in, which stood in one range with metallurgical centres of Ancient East.
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The theory trying to prove aryans, Georgians, Lezgins and others aborigine but only Turks comers to Caucasus - itself proves the anti-Turk essense of this thought. And that is because Turks who make the majority of Caucasus make a great obstacle on the ways of Russians and Persians to rule Caucasus. The minorities get their support - this is separtae and rule policy.
The first historical references to the Turks appear in Chinese records of about 2000 B.C. These records refer to tribes called the Hsiung-nu, an early form of the Western term Hun, who lived in an area bounded by the Altai Mountains, Lake Baikal, and the northern edge of the Gobi Desert and are believed to have been the ancestors of the Turks. Specific references in Chinese sources in the sixth century A.D. identify the tribal kingdom called Tu-Küe located on the Orkhon River south of Baikal.
Other Turkish nomads from the Altai region founded the Göktürk Empire, a confederation of tribes under a dynasty of Khans whose influence extended during the sixth to eighth centuries from the Aral Sea to the Hindu Kush in the land bridge known as Transoxania, i.e., across the Oxus River. The Göktürks are known to have been enlisted by a Byzantine emperor in the seventh century as allies against the Sassanians.
In the eighth century some Turkish tribes, among them the Oguz, moved south of the Oxus River, while others migrated west to the northern shore of the Black Sea. Turks came into Asia Minor in 1071 AD after the victory of Malazgirt by the Seljuks.
Scyths were Indo-European, related to slavic peoples, but wide-ranging along the steppes, and were generally called "Yue Zhi" (the "Moon People", possibly due to skin colour) by the Chinese. Greek geographe Ptolomey wrote about skitian tribes Serboi and Chorovatos lived at Azov See. This tribes are todays slavic Serbs and Croats (russian: Serbi, Horvati).
Actually relating Scyths to Slavic people is something new for me. Byzantine historian of VI century - Simocatta means the same nation when he says Scyths, Huns or Turks. Generally Schytians, Massagets and Saks are thought to be forefathers of Azeri Turks who make the majority of the Caucasus of our days.
In that time Scyths were slavische und aryanische steppe-folks. Western Sarmats were more like slavo-aryan. Todays slavic people Serbs and Croats are of Sarmatian origin and in 3 ct. A.C. they lived near Azov see and they are cognate with Ossets and Alans. But with comming of Huns, Bulgarians, Avars and other Turks they moved to west. Today you can see that Slavs are genitic very close cognates to indo-aryans.
The difference between Azeri Turks and Middle Asian Turks - in their appearance and cultural and art values prove once more that a real historian should try and find the roots of Azeris in the region where they live now that must go very deep in the past.
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