Professor Buniatov

Professor Buniatov one of the worst revisionists of Caucasian Albania.

He chose as his main field of study the "ancient history of Azerbaijan" aind in particular "Caucasian Albania". And he devised the theory that the Karabakh Armenian rulers, like the Belgarians and Hasan-Jalal were not really Armenians but Armenianized Albanians.

The "Albanians" Buniatov was referring to has nothing to do with the nation in the Balkans. This was the name the Romans gave to a Caucasian people when they first made incursions into the Caucasus in the first century B.C.

"Buniatov's academy reissued thirty thousand copies of a forgotten racist tract by the turn of the century Russian polemcisit Vasil Velichko, later Buniatov began a poisonous quarrel for which Caucasian Albanians themselves should take none of them blame. (Their true history has not become any clearer as a result). Buniatov’s scholarly credentials were dubious. It later transpired that the two articles he published in 1960 and 1965 on Caucasian Albania were direct plagiarism. Under his own name, he had simply published, unattributed, translations of two articles, originally written in English by Western scholars C.F.J. Dowsett and Robert Hensen."

Source: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War by Thomas De Waal (Aug 25, 2004) , pages 152-153, 143