INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO THE MEDIEVAL CAUCASIAN ALBANIA
AZG Armenian Daily #151
23/08/2007
Science and Culture
On September 2-5, an international conference dedicated to the
historical-cultural heritage of the medieval Caucasian Albania (also
known as Alvank in Armenian) will be held in Yerevan.
The research of the medieval Caucasian Albania is not only scientific,
but also a political issue, according to the initiator, Director of
RA Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oriental Studies Ruben Safrastian.
"It’s not a secret that our neighbor Azerbaijan does everything to
ascribe the cultural heritage of Caucasian Albania to it, which, is,
in its turn, an encroachment upon the history of the Armenian people",
mentioned R. Safrastian.
French famous Armenologists Jan Pier Mahen, Bernard Rudien,
Constantine Zimmermann, Georgian famous medievalist Zaza Aleksidze,
also specialists from Dagestan and Russia will participate in the
conference.