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 West 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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Gular Mikayil qizi Ahmadova (Azerbaijani: Gülər Əhmədova), née Aliyeva (born 20 August 1965 in Baku), is a retired Azerbaijani politician, former member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan and former member of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party.

She gained notoriety in 2012 after a video shot on a hidden camera was released, featuring Ahmadova negotiating a bribe sum with lawyer and fellow party member Elshad Abdullayev to help arrange, among other things, his election to the Azerbaijani parliament. The corruption scandal which ensued became known as Gulargate (by analogy with the Watergate scandal) and led to Ahmadova's stepping down as an MP and later arrest and expulsion from the party. She was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement and failure to report a grave offence, but her prison term was suspended 14 months into the sentence. (Full article...)

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... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... 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 with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
... 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 the Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution?

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... that Yanar Dag (pictured) is a natural fire that burns "eternally" on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan?}}

... that Baku's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?

... that after the collapse of American cotton exports in the 1860s, Azerbaijan became a large-scale cotton producer, often planting it rather than food crops?

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

Image 1Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 22The 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 2319th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture 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 26Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2815th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 341748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 361996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)

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