Treaty of Turkmenchay

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Treaty of Turkmenchay

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Article XV — His Highness the Shah, acting with the good and salutary intention of restoring tranquility to his state and removing from his subjects everything that could increase the miseries caused by the war so happily ended by the present treaty, grants complete and complete pardon to all the people and officials of the province called Azerbaijan. meat does. None of them, regardless of rank, should be persecuted for their actions or behavior during the war or during the temporary occupation of the said province by the Russian army, or insulted for their religious beliefs. In addition, starting from today, those officials and residents will have one year to move freely from the province of Iran to Russia with their families, to carry and sell their movable property without any customs or taxes being imposed on their salable goods or property and belongings without any hindrance from the government or local leadership. is given. As for immovable property, a five-year period is established for its sale or arbitrary disposal of it, but this exemption does not apply to people who have committed a crime or a crime before the expiration of the mentioned one-year period (based on this article, 10 thousand Armenian families It was transferred from the territory of Iran to the territory of Northern Azerbaijan. Due to this, considerable demographic changes took place in Northern Azerbaijan and the foundation of future events was laid).

Treaty

Treaty of Turkmenchay

Articles

Article XV — His Highness the Shah, acting with the good and salutary intention of restoring tranquility to his state and removing from his subjects everything that could increase the miseries caused by the war so happily ended by the present treaty, grants complete and complete pardon to all the people and officials of the province called Azerbaijan. meat does. None of them, regardless of rank, should be persecuted for their actions or behavior during the war or during the temporary occupation of the said province by the Russian army, or insulted for their religious beliefs. In addition, starting from today, those officials and residents will have one year to move freely from the province of Iran to Russia with their families, to carry and sell their movable property without any customs or taxes being imposed on their salable goods or property and belongings without any hindrance from the government or local leadership. is given. As for immovable property, a five-year period is established for its sale or arbitrary disposal of it, but this exemption does not apply to people who have committed a crime or a crime before the expiration of the mentioned one-year period (based on this article, 10 thousand Armenian families It was transferred from the territory of Iran to the territory of Northern Azerbaijan. Due to this, considerable demographic changes took place in Northern Azerbaijan and the foundation of future events was laid).