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Review of Armenian Studies

Publication Date: 2020

Author: Ceyda ACİCBE

The Caucasus is a geography that has preserved its strategic importance throughout history. Many states, acting with economic and political interests, have focused on this geography, especially from the 18th century onwards. In the following centuries, due to the region's political struggle, the Caucasus witnessed many structural changes and transformations. Wars and migrations in the 19th and 20th centuries in this geography paved the way for changes in the political, economic, demographic, and social fields. Following the Tsarist Russian rule, the Soviet Union continued the policies of Tsarist Russia towards the South Caucasus. The conditions created by the policies of these great powers had many consequences. One such consequence was that the transfer of Zangezur to Armenia. The activities of radical-nationalist Armenian groups in and around the Zangezur accelerated the transferring of this region to Armenia. This study aims to review the process of the transfer of Zangezur to Armenia in light of the events in and around Zangezur in 1918-1920. 

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