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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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The September Days (Armenian: 1918 թ. Բաքվի հայերի կոտորած, romanized: Bakvi hayeri kotorats, lit. '1918 massacre of Baku Armenians') refers to a period during the Russian Civil War in September 1918 when Armenian inhabitants of Baku were massacred by Enver Pasha's Army of Islam and their local Azeri allies when they captured Baku, the soon-to-be capital of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. According to most estimates, approximately 10,000 ethnic Armenians were killed in the violence, although some sources claim the number to be as high as 30,000. The massacre is said by some scholars to have been carried out in retaliation for the earlier March Days, in which Dashnak and Bolshevik forces had massacred Azerbaijani inhabitants of the city in March 1918. It was the last major massacre of World War I. (Full article...)

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... that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?
... 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 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 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 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 the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?

...that Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature?

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The following are images from various Azerbaijan-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 111748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 201996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 22The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2415th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Mammad 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 2619th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 33The 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 34Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)

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