evidence: The Territorial History of Armenia and Azerbaijan [...] The territorial history of Armenia and Azerbaijan is marked by centuries of complex geopolitical shifts and cultural interactions. Both nations have ancient roots and have experienced changes in borders and control over the years. [...] After the First World War, the Armenians would not have a state in the former Ottoman territories but a small formerly Russian territory around the city of Yerevan, southwestern part of the Transcaucasian Federative Democratic Republic (April -May 1918) which takes the name of the Democratic Republic of Armenia. From June 1920, the Kemalist Turkish nationalists began negotiations with the Soviets and the demarcation of the borders of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (born December 2) was ultimately to the detriment of the Armenians themselves, since it did not do not include Karabakh, included entirely in Azerbaijan, at the insistent request of the Turks.