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A view of Baku, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, 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'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 first ruled by Caucasian Albania and later 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 CIS, and the OPCW. Azerbaijan is also an observer state of the WTO. (Full article...)

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Map of Azerbaijan showing Shamakhi District

Shamakhi District (Azerbaijani: Şamaxı rayonu) is one of the 69 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the east of the country and belongs to the Mountainous Shirvan Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Quba, Khizi, Gobustan, Hajigabul, Agsu, and Ismayilli. Its capital and largest city is Shamakhi. As of 2020, the district had a population of 106,400.

In its history, eleven major earthquakes have rocked Shamakhi, but each time it was reconstructed by its inhabitants due to its role as the economic and administrative capital of Shirvan and one of the key towns on the way of the Silk Road. The only building to have survived eight of the eleven earthquakes is the landmark Juma Mosque (8th century CE). (Full article...)

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... that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
... 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 the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... that in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?

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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 1The 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 2Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 515th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 1019th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 131996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Mammad 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 24Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 261748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 37"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 39The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)

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