History
Ordubad region was a part of the khanates of Erivan and Nakhichevan, which were dependencies of Persia, with Ordubad forming the main town of the district of Aza-Jeran in the eastern part of the khanate of Nakhichevan. After the Russo-Persian War and the Turkmanchay Treaty of 1828, the region was ceded to Imperial Russia, and became a part of Nakhichevan uyezd of Erivan Governorate. Since 1921 Ordubad was a part of Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1990 became the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic within the Azerbaijan Republic.
Read more about this topic: Ordubad Rayon
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the natures of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)