The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan was fought on a historical front, too. Though the conflict is over, apparently, a historical debate is not. To claim Karabakh, Armenian historians have rewritten the region's history. They did it with the help of many Western experts and historians who rarely fact-checked stories that were promoted for several decades, if not a century, thanks to the presence of a strong and aggressive diaspora in the West. One such area of battlefield is the history of Caucasian Albania, which was located in the territory of modern-day Azerbaijan. It is under a new, fresh attack from Armenia & diaspora. For Armenian nationalists, the theory on Caucasian Albania is absolutely unacceptable, as it destroys the edifice built over the last three hundred years about Great Armenia, which, according to them, included Karabakh and other territories in the South Caucasus, overlapping with Caucasian Albania. Frequently, Armenian scholars point to Armenian churches as evidence of their historical presence. American scholars Gerard Toal & John Loughlin point out in this regard that “the Armenian Church has a long and complicated geographical footprint across the Middle East, Anatolia and Caucasus… churches, graveyards and religious stones are taken as evidence of original ownership of territories under dispute and the basis for making claims to territories that may not otherwise be under dispute. Such discourses seek to imagine territory as sacred space, sacred not simply for its religious meaning but more broadly as the ancient patrimony of the modern nation” (https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2013.842184). Interestingly enough, some Armenian historians, such as renowned American scholar of Armenian origin Ronald Suny, in 1989 (the conflict just began) acknowledged the heritage and legacy of Caucasian Albania, believing that mountainous Karabakh was inhabited by Albanians who "eventually merged with the Armenians" (https://doi.org/10.2307/3012134), which means that Karabakh Armenians are partly Armenized Albanians. (Other segments were a result of resettlement carried out by Russia in the 19th century - a well-documented event.) This, in turn, means that churches in Karabakh (ancient) were Albanians, at least in part. Another interesting fact is that Russia (Count Potemkin) initially, in 18 century, was thinking of creating two vassal states in the Caucasus - Armenia and Albania. (https://books.google.az/books/about/Empire_by_Invitation.html?id=8kNnNwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y) There are many facts like that debunking the idea that Caucasian Albania is "pseudohistorical", though much more research should be carried out to resurface the true history (more on this in my op-ed https://eurasiareview.com/26052021-conundrum-over-caucasian-albania-oped/. ) However, unlikely any further significant research will dissuade Armenian radicals from pursuing their false dreams, which killed thousands of people, including their own compatriots. But responsibility also lies with some Western intellectuals who inspired those radicals to see territorial acquisition based on imagined history.