Azerbaijan, Baku, May 12 / Trend I.Isabalayeva /
Over 700 documents from the Vatican archives have been studied. Of these, 85 documents were specific to Azerbaijani history.
The head of the Translation and Information Department of the Institute of Manuscripts at the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), D.Sc. Farid Alekperli, spoke about this at the Presidium, ANAS reported.
Four documents in Italian, Greek, French, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Mongolian and other languages of the Caucasian Albania have been found among the documents on the history of Azerbaijan, he said. The documents mainly relate to the 10th -20th centuries. The documents cover a thousand years of Azerbaijan's history, bearing letters which reflect the classified correspondence between the rulers of Azerbaijan from the Middle Ages (Ilkhan, Safavi, Garamanly, Afshar, Ghajar, etc.) and the Roman popes, documents relating to religious activities and propaganda carried out by the Vatican in Azerbaijan.
More than 400 ancient manuscripts have been studied in the Vatican Apostolic Library and 60 ancient manuscripts belonging to Azerbaijani authors of the Middle Ages were found. These medieval manuscripts were written in Azerbaijani (Turkish), Persian and Arabic languages.