What is the reason why Azerbaijan and Armenia have been entangled for many years?

The dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia includes both religious and historical issues. Nowadays, however, conflicts break out, and more often, Transcaucasia is located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, where all the major countries in the world have their own interests. Therefore, it has become the frontier of the big country game.

Azerbaijan, Armenia

Azerbaijan and Armenia are located in the South Caucasus, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, bordering Russia in the north and Turkey and Iran in the south. They are the intersection of Christian civilization and Islamic civilization. In addition, since modern times, because a large number of oil and natural gas have been discovered in the Caspian Sea region, and the region is at the crossroads of Eurasia, its strategic position is extremely important, so the conflict there has greatly intensified.

The main contradiction between Albania and Asia is Nagorno? The ownership of Karabakh (hereinafter referred to as Naka region).

The Naka region belonged to Armenia in ancient times, so the residents here are mainly Armenians.

However, as mentioned above, the South Caucasus is located at the intersection of major civilizations, so major civilizations have repeatedly seesawed here, constantly performing the drama of conquest and conquest.

In the long history, Armenia was conquered by foreign civilizations. By the end of the 4th century, Armenia was divided between Byzantium and Sassanbos. Later, the Armenian province of Arzah (including Naka) was taken over by the Kingdom of Albania in the Caucasus.

With the passage of time, the forces in the whole South Caucasus have been shuffled again and again.

By the19th century, Nagorny Karabakh and Azerbaijan were almost simultaneously annexed by Russia. Subsequently, Russia merged the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the western part of Azerbaijan into one province, and moved the population to break the population structure of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh region and make it easier to manage.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Armenia under the Ottoman Empire began to seek independence. At this time, the Ottoman Empire hated the Armenian people and carried out a genocide without mercy.

After World War I, the Ottoman Empire disintegrated and Armenia became independent.

At the same time, the Russian empire perished, the newly born Soviet forces had not yet arrived in the South Caucasus, and Azerbaijan also declared its independence.

After independence, both countries claimed absolute sovereignty over Naka. For this reason, the two countries fought, but soon found that the strength of Soviet Russia far exceeded that of the original Russia.

As a result, these two countries were merged into the Soviet Union.

After being controlled by the Soviet Union, although the two countries could not solve the problem by force, they both hoped that the Soviet Union would incorporate Nagorny Karabakh into their own country.

At first, Stalin agreed to the integration of Nagorno Karabakh into Armenia, but Azerbaijan strongly opposed it and held protests and demonstrations. Then, armed anti-Soviet actions broke out in Armenia. This made Stalin lose his affection for Armenia, so the Soviet authorities redistributed the Nagorno-Karabakh region to Azerbaijan.

More than half a century later, because of its completely different cultural beliefs from Armenians, Azerbaijan has been emigrating to Nagorno-Karabakh, trying to assimilate the people there in order to consolidate its rule.

Although Armenia is dissatisfied, it is helpless in the face of the Soviet Union's strong control over the South Caucasus.

Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Armenia finally saw hope. They began to openly oppose Soviet policies, and activities such as strikes, marches, protests and demonstrations intensified, urging Gorbachev to redraw the borders of the joining countries. But Gorbachev said that the border issue cannot be changed.

But at this time, the situation is no longer controlled by Gorbachev.

In the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenians began to expel Azerbaijanis in an organized and premeditated manner, and many bloody conflicts broke out between the two sides.

Aya conflict

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the South Caucasus fell into a power vacuum, resulting in disputes between Azerbaijan and Armenia around the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

At first, the Armenians of Nagorny Karabakh held a referendum to decide their ownership. However, Armenians in Naka account for more than 70%, while Azerbaijanis only account for more than 20%. So, obviously, this is going to Armenia. Therefore, the Azerbaijanis of Nagorny Karabakh refused to participate.