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Azerbaijan (UK: /ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn, -ˈdʒæn/ (listen), US: /ˌɑːzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn, ˌæz-/; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan, [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn]), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (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 Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The region and seven surrounding districts are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, pending a solution to the status of Nagorno-Karabakh through negotiations facilitated by the OSCE, although became de facto independent with the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994. Following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, the seven districts and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh were returned to Azerbaijani control.

The vast majority of the country's population (97%) is nominally Muslim, but the constitution does not declare an official religion and all major political forces in the country are secularist. Azerbaijan is a developing country and ranks 91st on the Human Development Index. It has a high rate of economic development, literacy, and a low rate of unemployment. However, the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, in power since 1993, has been accused of authoritarian leadership under the leadership of both Heydar Aliyev and his son Ilham Aliyev, and deteriorating the country's human rights record, including increasing restrictions on civil liberties, particularly on press freedom and political repression. (Full article...)

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The history of Azerbaijan is understood as the history of the region now forming the Republic of Azerbaijan. Topographically, the land is contained by the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains in the north, the Caspian Sea in the east, and the Armenian Highlands in the west. In the south, its natural boundaries are less distinct, and here the country merges with the Iranian Plateau.

The entity of Caucasian Albania was established on its soil in ancient times. The Caucasian Albanian language spoken by the founders of Caucasian Albania was most likely a predecessor of the now endangered Udi language spoken by the Udi people. From the time of the Medes and the Achaemenid Empire, until the coming of the Russians in the 19th century, the territories of the republic of Azerbaijan and Iran usually shared the same history. Azerbaijan retained its Iranian character even after the Arab conquest of Iran and the conversion of the area's inhabitants to Islam. Some four centuries later, Oghuz Turkic tribes under the Seljuq dynasty entered the area, and Azerbaijan gained a large amount of Turkic inhabitants. Over the centuries, as the original population mingled with the immigrant Turkic nomads, the number of native Persian speakers gradually diminished, and a Turkic dialect nowadays known as Azerbaijani (or Azeri Turkic) gained hold. (Full article...)

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... that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?
... 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 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?
... 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?

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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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Image 1Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 919th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 13"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 151996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 18The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Azeri salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2915th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 331748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Mammad 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 37Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 38The 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 39Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)

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