Number of toponyms by linguistic association

Toponymy does not account for the Karabakh War. However, tensions between the two ethnic groups were exacerbated by the inconsistency created between toponymic and administrative structures the Soviets did not rename settlements in spatial groups. Rather, towns with Armenian toponyms existed mixed in with Azeri-named towns. 

The Soviet attempt to mix the toponymy of the ethnic groups was frustrated by the administrative structure, which appears to have had the intention of dividing the 

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Fig. 111.4 Number of toponyms by linguistic association. (Source Administrativno-Teriitoriarnoye Deleniye, 1961 author s research)...

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