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by Jaume Ollé
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Several new states have been reported in the former Soviet
Union:
Today under Armenian control, the "state" of Geycha and Zansegur was
proclaimed in March 1992 for the Azeri population near Lake Sevan.
The flag is horizontal black, red, green, blue with a crescent and
wolf (I don't know the color of the crescent and wolf, but probably
white).
Jaume Ollé, 12 September 1996
This flag appears in the Flags of Aspirant Peoples chart [eba94], #114, with the following caption:
GÖKCHAI AND ZANGEZUR
Azerbaijanis
East Armenia
with the wolf passant instead of the wolf's head.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 1999
The Flag Bulletin [tfb],
#149 (1992) p. 247 states:
Geycha and Zangesur: It is claimed that in March 1992 Azeri-populated areas near Lake Geycha (Lake Sevan) in Armenia proclaimed their own state. Their flag bears a crescent and wolf, traditional Muslim and Turkish symbols,against a background of equal horizontal stripes of black-red-green-blue.I would assume the Armenians would vehemently deny the existence of these people or this state. It is also possible the Azeris proclaimed this state from outside Armenia. The phrase "It is claimed..." is telling.
Dave Martucci, 24 July 1998
An Armenian point of view
I insist that the fact of existence of any flag does not imply the
existence of a state or of necessary conditions for its creation.
Until 1988-1990, the Azeri population of Armenia was about 180,000
(less than 5 percent of total population), and it was extremely
scattered throughout the country. Azeris were living almost in all
provinces with small, compact groups. They are not indigenous people
in Armenia. First Turkic tribes settled in Transcaucasia in the
VIIth-VIIIth centuries, at the time, when Armenia already had a more than
1000 year-old history.
After the well-known events connected with the national-liberation
movement in Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 400,000 Armenians living in
Azerbaijan were displaced and moved to Armenia. This was followed by
the migration of Armenian Azeri population to Azerbaijan. As a
result, in 1992, there were no Armenian community in Azerbaijan and
no Azeri community in Armenia. This is the true story in brief.
Why they have chosen the territory near the lake Seva