The Iranian historian concludes: "There isn't the slightest doubt about the fact that the Turkish speaking Caucasian regions never bore the name Azerbaijan. In the past, historians and writers didn't avoid expressing this truth, but later and for political reasons the truth was veiled from the world, so that today only a very few of the new and the old generation know about this fact".
However, the famous Soviet historian, Academic Vassily V. Bartold has spoken about the above fact without reservation. "The name Caucasian Azerbaijan was used only after the Revolution (1917 October Revolution), first by Mousavatists and later, the Soviet Union."
Prof. Bartold further elaborates about naming this Caucasian region as Azerbaijan in the following way: "If there is the need to select a name that embraces the whole of the State of Azerbaijan, in that case it is possible to call it ARAN (AGHVANK)".
As to why this mistake in naming was made. Prof. Bar-told expresses a similar point of view to that of the Iranian historian: namely that its motive was PAN-TURKISM.
"The name Azerbaijan was chosen for this state only through the intention and thought that by founding the State of Azerbaijan, Iranian Azerbaijan would also join the state... Therefore, the name 'Azerbaijan' was selected".
PAN-TURKISM