BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 11. The Department for Toponymy of Western Azerbaijan (historical lands of Azerbaijan located in the territory of modern-day Armenia) and Karabakh has been established at the Nasimi Institute of Linguistics of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), Trend reports.
The department will deal with the restoration of indigenous toponyms of Western Azerbaijan and the onomastic landscape of liberated lands.
Leading researcher of the Institute of Linguistics, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor Elchin Ismailov will head the department.