Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "თურქული ტოპონიმები სომხეთში" in Georgian language version.
Another social-political process that apparently affected place naming in Armenia was the emigration of Azerbaijanis from the Armenian SSR that occurred in that period.
According to this plan some 100,000 people had to be «voluntarily» resettled. The emigration occurred in three stages : 10,000 people were resettled in 1948, another 40,000 in 1949, and 50,000 in 1950
These waves of emigrations of the Azerbaijani population and immigrations of Armenians were apparently one of the major causes for renamings in the Armenian SSR in the post-war period. We should also consider the general decline in Russo- Turkish relations in the aftermath of the Second World War, and Stalin’s demands for the return of the territories seceded to Turkey in 1921.31 The post-war renamings campaign ended in 1950, and the annual number of renamings steadily declined until 1967—1968. The years 1967 and 1968 were marked by a sudden increase in renamings when more than 50 place-names were changed. The explanation for this phenomenon could be the attempt of the local authorities to accommodate the resurgence of Armenian nationalism that occurred two years earlier.
By late 1980’s there were 152 Azerbaijani villages in the Armenian SSR all with Turkic place-names.
There are 107 hydronyms in the list, 71 (66 %) of which were renamed.
If one considers the method of renamings, it is possible to distinguish four categories.
3. Linguistic adaptation : Kafan into Kapan (Hapan), Ertapin into Artabun.
Following the pattern established for hydronyms we can apply the same four categories here as well.
(ინგლისური)In his Population of Soviet Armenia, published in 1932, Z. Korkodyan reports that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 2000 cites of the total 2310 were of Turkish origin.
(ინგლისური)In his Population of Soviet Armenia, published in 1932, Z. Korkodyan reports that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 2000 cites of the total 2310 were of Turkish origin.
