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Falsification of history in Azerbaijan
The falsification of history in Azerbaijan is an evaluative definition, which, in the opinion of a number of authors, should characterize the historical research carried out in Azerbaijan with state support. The purpose of these studies, according to critics, is to exalt the Albanians as the supposed ancestors of Azerbaijanis and to provide historical justification in territorial disputes with Armenia. At the same time, the task is put forward: firstly, to make Azerbaijanis settle down on the territory of Azerbaijan and, secondly, to cleanse the latter from their Armenian heritage[1][2]. Experts from Armenia bring these accusations in the sharpest and most detailed form, but Russian historians Viktor Shnirelman[3], Anatoly Yakobson[4], Vladimir Zakharov[5], Mikhail Meltyukhov and others, Iranian historian Hasan Javadi[6], American historians Philip Cole[7] and George Burnutyan[8] also speak about them.

According to scholar Shirin Hunter, many Azerbaijanis' distorted understanding of the true nature of cultural, ethnic, and historical ties between Iran and Azerbaijan is related to the legacy inherited by the modern Republic of Azerbaijan from the "Soviet practice of historical falsification" - such historical myths include, in particular, the idea that in ancient times a single Azerbaijani state, which included most of the territory of present-day northern Iran, had been divided into two parts