Portal:Azerbaijan

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A view of Baku, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West 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, Armenia and Turkey 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 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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Azerbaijan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan fielded a team of 56 athletes, 42 men and 14 women, across 14 sports at the Games. Azerbaijan made its Olympic debut in four sports (archery, slalom canoeing, track cycling, and triathlon). It was the nation's largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics in its independent history, beating the record of 53 athletes who represented Azerbaijan at the 2012 London Olympics four years earlier. More than 60 percent of the nation's roster were born outside of Azerbaijan; several of them hailed from Eastern Europe, particularly from Russia and Ukraine. For the first time in history, Azerbaijan was not represented in weightlifting, as the International Weightlifting Federation decided to strip of its quota places over "multiple positive cases" of doping. (Full article...)

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... that in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?
... 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 Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution?
... 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 Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?

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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 11748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 51996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 1419th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19The 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 20Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2215th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Mammad 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 27Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 37The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)

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