Portal:Azerbaijan

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...)

In this article, 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 have 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...)

List of selected articles

... that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
... 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 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 Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... that in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?

...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?

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

Image 1The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 319th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5The 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 6Mammad 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 7Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 22The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 231748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 24"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 311996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3915th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)

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