Portal:Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Turkey (via the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city.

The territory of what is now Azerbaijan was ruled first by Caucasian Albania and later by various Persian empires. Until the 19th century, it remained part of Qajar Iran, but the Russo-Persian wars of 1804–1813 and 1826–1828 forced the Qajar Empire to cede its Caucasian territories to the Russian Empire; the treaties of Gulistan in 1813 and Turkmenchay in 1828 defined the border between Russia and Iran. The region north of the Aras was part of Iran until it was conquered by Russia in the 19th century, where it was administered as part of the Caucasus Viceroyalty.

Azerbaijan is a unitary semi-presidential republic. It is one of six independent Turkic states and an active member of the Organization of Turkic States and the TÜRKSOY community. Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 182 countries and holds membership in 38 international organizations, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the NATO PfP program. It is one of the founding members of GUAM, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the OPCW. Azerbaijan is an observer state of the World Trade Organization. (Full article...)

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The Republic of Azerbaijan, better known in historiography as the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds. The ADR was founded by the Azerbaijani National Council in Tiflis on 28 May 1918 after the collapse of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, and ceased to exist on 28 April 1920. Its established borders were with Russia to the north, the Democratic Republic of Georgia to the north-west, the Republic of Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. It had a population of around 3 million. Ganja was the temporary capital of the Republic as Baku was under Bolshevik control.

Under the ADR, a government system was developed in which a Parliament elected on the basis of universal, free, and proportionate representation was the supreme organ of state authority; the Council of Ministers was held responsible before it. Fatali Khan Khoyski became its first prime minister. Besides the Musavat majority, Ahrar, Ittihad, Muslim Social Democrats as well as representatives of Armenian (21 out of 120 seats), Russian, Polish, German, and Jewish minorities gained seats in the parliament. Many members supported Pan-Islamist and Pan-Turkist ideas. (Full article...)

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... that scholarly study of the poetry of Kishvari, one of the most important Azerbaijani poets of the 15th and 16th centuries, only started in 1928?
... that after signing a peace agreement in 1919, Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh?

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...that the origins of the Church of Caucasian Albania date to St. Eliseus' efforts in the first century AD to spread Christianity to the area?

...that in the early 1990s, Surat Huseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?

...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?

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Image 1Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 41996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 5The Caucasus after the Treaty of Gulistan, in which Persia ceded most of its northern khanates to Russia after the first Russo-Persian war (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Mammad Amin Rasulzade, a founder and spokesperson of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, was widely regarded as Azerbaijan's national leader. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 1215th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 1519th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Baku and Caspian Sea (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Bazarduzu (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 341748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Azerbaijan Nature Shaki (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 40The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 41Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 42Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 43Beşbarmaq mountain in 2024 (from Geography of Azerbaijan)

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