Portal:Azerbaijan

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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 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (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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The Azerbaijan national football team (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan milli futbol komandası) is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan. It represents Azerbaijan in international football competitions. The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Baku Olympic Stadium, with friendly matches sometimes hosted at club stadiums.

The Azerbaijan national football team has taken part in qualification for each major tournament since Euro 1996, but has never qualified for the finals tournament of any World Cup or European Championships. Azerbaijan was the first Caucasus country to host a major football tournament, the UEFA Euro 2020. (Full article...)

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... 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 in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the 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 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 after signing a peace agreement in 1919, Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh?

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...that during the G8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?

...that the first Azerbaijani language newspaper, Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi?

... that Badr Shirvani, a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?

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

Image 1Mammad 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 2Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Beşbarmaq mountain in 2024 (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 819th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Bazarduzu (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 13"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21The 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 22Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 251748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2615th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Azerbaijan Nature Shaki (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Baku and Caspian Sea (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 351996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 40Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 41Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 42The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 43Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)