http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/20677/

On August 17 1827 the Czarist Army drove the Persians from Oshakan Armenia the Shah's last foothold in the Caucuses thus liberating Western Armenia and tying it to the Russian Empire for the next 164 years.

The USSR may be gone, but Armenians remember shared sacrifices even 185 years later.

i dont get it ?

armenians celebrate that Persian rule over armenia was over instead they were ruled by Russians ?

isnt that still foreign rule ?

very interesting Azerbaijan Armenia conflict, Iran gave support to Armenia. Iran is still going support to Armenia. Iran a Muslim state? a little doubtful..

Yeah, Persians.

Iran at that time was ruled by Qajar dynasty, Qajars are an Azerbaijani tribe. Most of the Iranian Qajar army of that time was Turkic aswell.

And modern-day Armenia was composed of Azerbaijani Irevan Khanate, with majority of its inhabitants being Turkic Azerbaijanis. You talk as if there was an Armenia.

What a bunch of idiots, really.

Where the fck is Armenia here? All I see is local Azerbaijani Khanates.

@ stupid turk comment


Iran was named Persia untill 1935, that means anybody from Persia was called Persian untill 1935. we renamed it back to Land of Aryans (Iran) to show Iran is the nation of all Iranian tribes.

". In 1935 Rez Shh requested that the international community should refer to the country as Iran."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

Iranian azeris are iranian, im azari myself and my azari father ( who is born in Tabriz ) hates nothing more than being called a Turk, Turks are mongoloid people from central asia who have nothing in comon with us, we are Iranian azaris , we are white and some Olive not mongoloid.


Man i hate it when this Anatolian peasents want to claim us (Iranian azeris and our history) as one of their own.

Do you read your own post? "By international community".

This was a name known to Europeans because it had stuck into their mind from ancient times when there was the Persian empire, such name never existed in Iran itself. Is there even a word such as "Persia" in Persian language? No. It just sounds weird to imagine anyone in Iran calling their country as "Persia".

The fact is Qajars who ruled Iran at that time were not Persians, and neither was the majority of Qajar army.

This is an Iranian source:

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/army-vii-qajar#pt1

"The majority of infantry troops were of Turkish-speaking origin, with 26 regiments of Azeris from Azerbaijan and 16 regiments of Turkish-speaking recruits drafted in other provinces. Kurds and Lurs provided 8, and Persians the remaining 30 regiments (Picot, p. 112)."

42 Turkic regiments (with most if not all being Azerbaijani)
30 Persian regiments
8 Kurdish and Lur regiments

And this is only infantry regiments. Cavalry and artillery was primarily made-up of Azerbaijanis.

And another thing here of course is that there was no Armenia or any Armenian entity during that time. Modern-day Armenia itself had an Azeri majority.

Armenians can celebrate it by the fact that Russian invasion brought them to these lands from Iran and Ottoman Empire, but calling this "liberation of Armenia" are just the worst way of twisting the history.