Norashen Armenian quarter cemetery, Tbilisi
The Norashen Armenian quarter cemetery in Tbilisi is a comparator rather than a core Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict site. It shows that Armenian funerary and church heritage can be contested in other post-imperial settings as well, especially where urban land, church jurisdiction and national narratives overlap. Its inclusion helps prevent a simplistic two-state frame: Armenian heritage vulnerability has Georgian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Soviet and urban-development dimensions depending on place. The cemetery's significance is evidentiary and cautionary. Funerary stones make community history visible; damage or reattribution makes it easier for later publics to forget who lived in a neighbourhood. It should not be folded into anti-Azerbaijani argument, but it does belong in the atlas's broader heritage grammar.
The Norashen Armenian quarter cemetery in Tbilisi is a comparator rather than a core Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict site. It shows that Armenian funerary and church heritage can be contested in other post-imperial settings as well, especially where urban land, church jurisdiction and national narratives overlap. Its inclusion helps prevent a simplistic two-state frame: Armenian heritage vulnerability has Georgian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Soviet and urban-development dimensions depending on place. The cemetery's significance is evidentiary and cautionary. Funerary stones make community history visible; damage or reattribution makes it easier for later publics to forget who lived in a neighbourhood. It should not be folded into anti-Azerbaijani argument, but it does belong in the atlas's broader heritage grammar.