A Department of Toponymy was established on the basis of the Toponymy sector at the Institute of Linguistics named after Nasimi of ANAS.

APA was informed about this by ANAS.

The department of toponymy will deal with the issues of West Azerbaijan toponyms and the restoration of the onomastic landscape of territories freed from occupation, and determining their names.

In Karabakh, toponyms related to the history of Azerbaijan have been massively changed from time to time, some names were translated during the occupation period, and some were given new Armenian names.

Toponymics department will conduct studies in the direction of research of toponyms, nationalization of names of toponyms that were freed from occupation and renamed by Armenians.

The department will be headed by the leading researcher of the Institute of Linguistics, PhD in philology, associate professor Elchin Ismayilov.