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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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Yanar Dagh at night

Yanar Dagh (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, lit. 'burning mountain') is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan (a country which itself is known as "the Land of Fire"). Flames jet into the air 3 metres (9.8 ft) from a thin, porous sandstone layer. Administratively, Yanar Dagh belongs to Absheron District of Azerbaijan.

Unlike mud volcanoes, the Yanar Dagh flame burns fairly steadily, as it involves a steady seep of gas from the subsurface. It is claimed that the Yanar Dagh flame was only noted when accidentally lit by a shepherd in the 1950s. There is no seepage of mud or liquid, which distinguishes it from the nearby mud volcanoes of Lokbatan or Gobustan. (Full article...)

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... 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 Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... 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 adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?

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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 1Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (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 415th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Mammad 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 13Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 151748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Gobustan rock art (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 20The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 211996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3219th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)

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