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| | Azerbaijan Embassy in Canada (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Culturally, the imposition of the Cyrillic alphabet to replace the Latin one, destruction of mosques, oppressions of intelligentsia, etc. was designed to suppress any efforts of the Azerbaijan’s people to maintain and manifest their ethnic and cultural identity and to study the true history of their country. |
 | | During the Soviet period, the territories of Zangezur, Gekcha, part of Nakhchivan and other districts were hived off from Azerbaijan and attached to neighbouring Armenia. |
 | | As a result, the country’s area, which during the period of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic in 1920 had been 114,000 square kilometres was reduced to 86,600 square kilometres. |
| www.azembassy.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /azerbaijan.htm (2382 words) |
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