SATURDAY: Presentation of Book on Karabagh by George Bournoutian

AGBU Silicon Valley & YP- Northern California ARF Outreach Committee Bay Area Armenian National Committee UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Program present Renowned Historian & Professor Dr. George A. Bournoutian To discuss his book The 1823 Russian Survey of the Karabagh Province: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of Karabagh February 9, 2013 7:30 PM Vasbouragan Hall 51 Commonwealth Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118 Complimentary Admission In 1823, following the flight of the last Muslim Khan to Iran, the Russians conducted a thorough survey of the Karabagh Province (which included the region of Zangezur as well). The survey listed every village and nomad camp, enumerated the number of its inhabitants in 1822, lists the various taxes paid to the treasury in 1822, and most importantly, listed every village according to the ethnicity of its inhabitants: Armenian or Tatar (the term Azerbaijani) did not exist until the 20th century. For the last 20 years the Azerbaijani government and its historians have claimed that Armenians arrived in Karabagh only after 1828. They have even deleted material on the Armenians from the new editions of their own primary sources written in the 19th century. The Russian survey proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that in 1822 (six years before 1828) the Armenians formed the overwhelming (95%) of the population of the villages in Zangezur, as well as in the districts which form the territory of Nagorno-Karabagh today. The survey is a very rare document of some 350 pages. No copies exist in the US and only a handful of copies exist in the former USSR. Dr. Bournoutian has managed to locate a copy from the Moscow Central Library and has translated the entire survey, with extensive notes and commentary, into English. Armenian National Committee San Francisco - Bay Area 51 Commonwealth Avenue San Francisco, CA  94118 Tel: 415-387-3433 mail@ancsf.org www.ancsf.org P.S. Did you know that we are on Facebook and Twitter? We hope you take a moment to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. ******************************************************************************** Please do not respond to this message. If you wish to be removed from this list, please click on the unsubscribe link below. For all inquiries and comments, please contact us at mail@ancsf.org. ********************************************************************************

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