T T H H THE INVENTION n the Middle Ages (Caucasian) Albania was situated north of Galichian scientifically and methodically shows E E the Arax River, near Armenia and Iberia. During the the vain attempts to invent non-existing history eleventh to twelfth centuries this Christian country of the present-day “Azerbaijanis” who in I OF HISTORY disappeared form the maps and after the Arab invasion and I continuation of the Pan-Turkic policy had been N N the onslaught of the Mongols and Seljuks, various Khanates the product of the Bolshevik ideology which was V such as Shirwan, Ganja, Shamakhi, Karabagh, Talesh, and V moulding the “brotherhood” of the Soviet others appeared in the territory, ruled mainly by the Persians. In 1918, people through falsifying ancient and medieval E Rouben Galichian was born in Tabriz, Iran, to a E family of immigrant Armenians who had fled Van wIhen the regional countries became independent, there appeared a new history of the Armenian people and inventing N in 1915 to escape the Genocide, and who arrived in country named Azerbaijan, which bore the same name as the Persian N history for new-formed Turkic-Tatar Iran via Armenia, Georgia and France. After province of Azerbaijan across the Arax River. conglomerate attending school in Tehran, Rouben received a T scholarship to study in the UK and graduated with T Dr Edward Danielyan – Historian. a degree in Engineering from the University of Since the early 1960s various local historians and scientists of this newly NAS Institute of history, Yerevan. I Aston, Birmingham in 1963. founded country have been trying to prove that the population of this I O O Rouben's interest in geography and cartography land are the direct descendants of the Christian Albanians, as well as Galichian's small gem of a book is well started early in life, but he began seriously studying researched and carefully documented, at once N those of the Mongols, Seljuks and other Turkic tribes which allows them N this subject in the 1970s. In 1981, he moved to to claim that the multitude of the Christian monuments existing in the timely and timeless. His text and photographs will London with his family, where he had access to a huge variety of cartographic material. His first book region have Albanian, and not Christian Armenian origins. appeal to those with particular interests in the O entitled “Historic Maps of Armenia: The O South Caucasus as well as those with broader Cartographic Heritage (I. B Tauris, London, 2004) This book tries to uncover the truth behind these claims and related interests in the integrity of history and the fate of F contained a collection of world maps and maps of allegations and prove the reverse. The paradox, that the Azerbaijan F Armenia over a period of 2600 years, as seen by cultural artefacts in global trouble spots. various mapmakers. It became a bestseller of its authorities, who claim to be the rightful owners of all Christian Levon Chorbajian, Ph.D., H kind and the following year, an expanded version monuments in the South Caucasus, have been destroying most of the H University of Massachusetts Lowell, of the book (produced in Russian and Armenian, same medieval monuments in the area, is difficult to understand. Could The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geopolitics of I in addition to the English) was published in I S Armenia (Printinfo Art Books, 2005). His third it be that the targeted monuments are not Albanian but irrefutably S Nagorno-Karabagh, co-author and translator and book, “Countries South of the Caucasus in Armenian? T The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: T Medieval Maps: Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan” From Secession to Republic, author and editor. (Gomidas Institute, London, 2007), provides basic O O historical-geographical information of this area for Cover image: Satellite photo of the Southern Caucasus readers in the EU. His fourth and most recent R book, “The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, R Armenia, and the Showcasing of Imaginations” Y (Gomidas Institute-London and Printinfo Art Y Books-Yerevan, April 2009), documents the native Armenian pedigree in Nagorno-Karabagh through Azerbaijan, Armenia the centuries. All four books, printed in English, Joint publication by: ISBN 978-1-903656-88-4 are available through Amazon.com and Gomitas Institute Amazon.co.uk. The present volume is the revised and the Showcasing of Imagination and expanded edition of the latter work. For his services to Armenian historical cartography, Printinfo Art Books Rouben was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by (Second, revised and expanded edition) the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in November of 2008. In 2009 he was the recipient 9 7 8 1 9 0 3 6 5 6 8 8 4 of “Vazgen I” cultural achievements medal. ISBN 978-1-903656-88-4 Rouben Galichian He is married and shares his time between London and Yerevan. T T H H THE INVENTION n the Middle Ages (Caucasian) Albania was situated north of Galichian scientifically and methodically shows E E the Arax River, near Armenia and Iberia. During the the vain attempts to invent non-existing history eleventh to twelfth centuries this Christian country of the present-day “Azerbaijanis” who in I OF HISTORY disappeared form the maps and after the Arab invasion and I continuation of the Pan-Turkic policy had been N N the onslaught of the Mongols and Seljuks, various Khanates the product of the Bolshevik ideology which was V such as Shirwan, Ganja, Shamakhi, Karabagh, Talesh, and V moulding the “brotherhood” of the Soviet others appeared in the territory, ruled mainly by the Persians. In 1918, people through falsifying ancient and medieval E Rouben Galichian was born in Tabriz, Iran, to a E family of immigrant Armenians who had fled Van wIhen the regional countries became independent, there appeared a new history of the Armenian people and inventing N in 1915 to escape the Genocide, and who arrived in country named Azerbaijan, which bore the same name as the Persian N history for new-formed Turkic-Tatar Iran via Armenia, Georgia and France. After province of Azerbaijan across the Arax River. conglomerate attending school in Tehran, Rouben received a T scholarship to study in the UK and graduated with T Dr Edward Danielyan – Historian. a degree in Engineering from the University of Since the early 1960s various local historians and scientists of this newly NAS Institute of history, Yerevan. I Aston, Birmingham in 1963. founded country have been trying to prove that the population of this I O O Rouben's interest in geography and cartography land are the direct descendants of the Christian Albanians, as well as Galichian's small gem of a book is well started early in life, but he began seriously studying researched and carefully documented, at once N those of the Mongols, Seljuks and other Turkic tribes which allows them N this subject in the 1970s. In 1981, he moved to to claim that the multitude of the Christian monuments existing in the timely and timeless. His text and photographs will London with his family, where he had access to a huge variety of cartographic material. His first book region have Albanian, and not Christian Armenian origins. appeal to those with particular interests in the O entitled “Historic Maps of Armenia: The O South Caucasus as well as those with broader Cartographic Heritage (I. B Tauris, London, 2004) This book tries to uncover the truth behind these claims and related interests in the integrity of history and the fate of F contained a collection of world maps and maps of allegations and prove the reverse. The paradox, that the Azerbaijan F Armenia over a period of 2600 years, as seen by cultural artefacts in global trouble spots. various mapmakers. It became a bestseller of its authorities, who claim to be the rightful owners of all Christian Levon Chorbajian, Ph.D., H kind and the following year, an expanded version monuments in the South Caucasus, have been destroying most of the H University of Massachusetts Lowell, of the book (produced in Russian and Armenian, same medieval monuments in the area, is difficult to understand. Could The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geopolitics of I in addition to the English) was published in I S Armenia (Printinfo Art Books, 2005). His third it be that the targeted monuments are not Albanian but irrefutably S Nagorno-Karabagh, co-author and translator and book, “Countries South of the Caucasus in Armenian? T The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh: T Medieval Maps: Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan” From Secession to Republic, author and editor. (Gomidas Institute, London, 2007), provides basic O O historical-geographical information of this area for Cover image: Satellite photo of the Southern Caucasus readers in the EU. His fourth and most recent R book, “The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, R Armenia, and the Showcasing of Imaginations” Y (Gomidas Institute-London and Printinfo Art Y Books-Yerevan, April 2009), documents the native Armenian pedigree in Nagorno-Karabagh through Azerbaijan, Armenia the centuries. All four books, printed in English, Joint publication by: ISBN 978-1-903656-88-4 are available through Amazon.com and Gomitas Institute Amazon.co.uk. The present volume is the revised and the Showcasing of Imagination and expanded edition of the latter work. For his services to Armenian historical cartography, Printinfo Art Books Rouben was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by (Second, revised and expanded edition) the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in November of 2008. In 2009 he was the recipient 9 7 8 1 9 0 3 6 5 6 8 8 4 of “Vazgen I” cultural achievements medal.