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<p>the Northern Azerbaijan (currently, independent <a href="page.php?w=Republic_of_Azerbaijan">Republic of Azerbaijan</a>), that had not been ceded forcefully in 1813. By this time, in 1828, the century-long Iranian rule over <a href="page.php?w=Eastern_Armenia">Eastern Armenia</a> had thus officially come to an end.</p>

<p><big>Demographic shifts</big></p>
<p>Until the late fifteenth century, Armenians had constituted a majority in <a href="page.php?w=Eastern_Armenia">Eastern Armenia</a>.At the close of the fifteenth century, with the rise of the <a href="page.php?w=Safavid_Iran">Safavids</a>,</p><p>
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