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 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, 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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Entrance to the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape Reserve

Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve (Azerbaijani: Qobustan dövlət tarixi-bədii qoruğu) is a protected historic and natural site in Azerbaijan, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) southwest of Baku, near the settlement of Gobustan. It was established to preserve the region’s prehistoric rock carvings, mud volcanoes, and natural musical stones.

The reserve encompasses the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, which spans 537 hectares and contains over 6,000 rock carvings that depict people, animals, battles, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances, camel caravans, and celestial symbols such as the sun and stars, dating back 5,000 to 20,000 years. It also includes the Mud Volcanoes Tourism Complex, inaugurated in 2024. Since 2011, the Petroglyph Museum has been operating within the reserve. (Full article...)

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... that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that after signing a peace agreement in 1919, Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh?
... 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 a 14th-century work, originally attributed to another poet, was discovered in 2018 to be the creation of the Azerbaijani poet Yusuf Meddah?
... that in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?
... 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 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 1Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 819th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 10"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 13The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 18The 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 19Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2315th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 261996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Mammad 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 35Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 361748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)

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