evidence: Nakhchivan: Autonomous Republic Of Most Powerful Country In Southern Caucasus – OpEd [...] The South Caucasus is a rather complicated region. A hundred years ago, the military and political events that took place here significantly changed the map of the South Caucasus. At the beginning of the 20th century, after the fall of Tsarist Russia serious border problems arose between the independent republics that were born there. In the 1920s, as a result of the crossing interests of the great powers and the reoccupation of these lands by Bolshevism, serious changes took place in the map of the South Caucasus, and some of these problems still remain. Therefore, many people find it difficult to explain the reasons for the separated areas such as Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, when they look at this area on the map. As a result of these political processes, Nakhchivan, which was separated from Azerbaijan since February 1924, managed to remain as an autonomous republic within our country. However, the same Azerbaijan that you saw on the map of the South Caucasus printed in France during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 no longer exists, and now between Nakhchivan and main part of Azerbaijan stretches Zangezur region of Armenia. Currently, Nakhchivan has the status of an autonomous republic with its own parliament as a part of Azerbaijan.