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Azerbaijan (UK: /ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn, -ˈdʒæn/ ^ⓘ AZ-ər-by-JAHN, -⁠JAN, US: /ˌɑːzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn, ˌæz-/ AH-zər-by-JAHN, AZ-; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan, [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn]), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (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 the modern Republic of Azerbijan was first ruled by Caucasian Albania and later various Persian empires. Up 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 Czarist Russia and Qajar Iran. The region north of the Aras was Iranian until it was occupied by Russia during the 19th century. According to the Treaty of Turkmenchay, Qajar Iran recognized Russian sovereignty over the Erivan, Nakhchivan and Talysh Khanates (the last parts of Azerbaijan still in Iranian hands). The area was 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 CIS, and the OPCW. Azerbaijan is also an observer state of the WTO. (Full article...)

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Tunar Rahmanoghly singing Kurdish song "Rinda Min". Khari Bulbul Music Festival

The Kurds in Azerbaijan, (Kurdish: Kurdên Azerbaycanê, Кӧрдэн Азәрбайщанэ), form a part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space. Kurds established a presence in the Caucasus with the establishment of the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Some Kurdish tribes were recorded in Karabakh by the end of the sixteenth century. However, virtually the entire contemporary Kurdish population in the Republic of Azerbaijan descends from migrants from 19th-century Qajar Iran. (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 Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe, an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
... 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 blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... 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?

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...that Huseyn Khan Nakhichevanski (pictured) was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia?

...that Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat?

...that the crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan has been used for centuries in therapeutic baths?

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Image 1Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 12The 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 13Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 171996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 211748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 22The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2415th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Azeri salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Mammad 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 36Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3719th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)

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