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A view of Baku, Azerbaijan

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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Azerbaijani ashiqs in Baku

The art of Azerbaijani Ashiqs combines poetry, storytelling, dance, and vocal and instrumental music into traditional performance art. This art is one of the symbols of Azerbaijani culture and considered an emblem of national identity in Azerbaijan.

Characterized by the accompaniment of the kopuz, a stringed musical instrument, the classical repertoire of Azerbaijani Ashiqs includes 200 songs, 150 literary-musical compositions known as dastans, nearly 2,000 poems, and numerous stories. (Full article...)

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... that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that a 14th-century work, originally attributed to another poet, was discovered in 2018 to be the creation of the Azerbaijani poet Yusuf Meddah?
... 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 the 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by Sunni scholars?
... 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 Leyla Mammadbeyova (pictured) was the first Azerbaijani female aviator and the second parachutist woman in the former Soviet Union?

...that the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, who sang with great success at the Paris Olympia, was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?

...that the name of the Azerbaijani settlement Ramana, with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, is probably derived from Romana, the Latin word for ancient Rome?

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Image 1Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Baku and Caspian Sea (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 41996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Beşbarmaq mountain in 2024 (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11The 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 12Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2119th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Mammad 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 33The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 341748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3715th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 40"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 41Azerbaijan Nature Shaki (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 42Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 43Bazarduzu (from Geography of Azerbaijan)

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