Up to the Russian occupations at the beginning of the 19th century the overwhelming majority of the population of the Iravan Khanate were Azerbaijani-Turks.

Khachatur Abovyan, the founder of modern Armenian literature, the writer, the educator: “Our people not only use words in Azerbaijani in their speech, but also the entire sentences”. (Kh.Abovyan, Complete collection of works, volume V, Yerevan, the publishing house of AS of Arm. 1950, in the Armenian language).

The state-territorial delimitation of the South Caucasus in 1918 violated the socio-economic lifestyle of the population, which had developed over the centuries, thus causing acute border conflicts between the national states that emerged here.

Speaking about the origin of the Armenians, there is a need to shed light on “Armenian”, “Armenia”, “Hay”, “Hayastan” ethno-toponyms. It is known that the Armenians identify themselves with “Hay” ethnonym and with “Hayastan” toponym, the country of their residence. Outside Armenia, these people are known as “the Armenians”, “Armenin”, “Virmen” etc, and “Armenia”, “Armeniya”, “Virmeniya” and so on as the country.