Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Within the project “Let’s posses our historical figures” by the Institute of History named after A.A.Bakikhanov, was held a scientific-practical conference on “Brave female ruler – Tomris” at the secondary school N 272 on behalf Etibar Jalilov in Baku.

In the conference project manager, director of the aforementioned institute, corresponding member of ANAS Yagub Mahmudov spoke about statehood history, historical figures and emperies existed in history. Azerbaijan has 5 thousand years of statehood history, thus our people established great states of the medieval ages – emperies of Aggoyunlu, Safavids, Afshars, Gajars, he noted.

Y. Mahmudov stressed that, Tomris’s victory over Achaemenid King Cyrus is one of glorious pages in the history of Azerbaijani statehood.

According to the PhD in History Allahverdi Alimirzeyev, ancient sources prove that Massaget kingdom was located in northern Azerbaijan and Tomris’s fighting with Cyrus II on the bank of river Araz.

The essay and painting competition about Tomris was attended by students from 140 different regions. In the future, this project is planned to hold in the regions.

Note that in April last year, a number of secondary schools of Baku held conferences on the project "Let's posses our historical figures".

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