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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

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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Black January (Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev and Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov asserted that military law was necessary to thwart efforts by the Azerbaijani independence movement to overthrow the Soviet Azerbaijani government. According to official estimates of Azerbaijan, 147 civilians were killed, 800 people were injured, and five people went missing. (Full article...)

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... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... 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 Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... 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 Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?
... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?

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Yanar Dag (pictured) is a natural fire that burns "eternally" on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan
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... that Baku's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?

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

Image 1Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 215th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (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 41748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 10The 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 11Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907
Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan
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Image 12
Mammad 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
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Image 13Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 1819th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Sasanid silver plate from
Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan
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Image 22Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 25Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 261996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 34The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 37Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 39
Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan
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List of Azerbaijanis
List of companies of Azerbaijan
List of castles and fortresses in Azerbaijan
List of State Reserves in Azerbaijan
List of National Parks in Azerbaijan
List of State Game Reserves in Azerbaijan
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v t e Azerbaijani people by country or region
Azerbaijani diaspora Largest urban areas
Traditional areas	Azerbaijan Iran Iranian Azerbaijan Borchaly Derbent Armenia
Former Soviet Union	Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan
Europe	France Germany United Kingdom
Asia	Turkey
Americas	Canada United States
See also	Azerbaijani Olympic medalists List of Azerbaijanis

v t e Airlines of Azerbaijan
Scheduled	Azerbaijan Airlines
Charter	SW Business Aviation
Cargo	Azal Avia Cargo Silk Way Airlines Silk Way West Airlines
Defunct	AZALJet Buta Airways Imair Airlines Turan Air

v t e Airports in Azerbaijan
Major international	Baku
Minor international	Ganja Lənkəran Nakhchivan
Domestic	Qəbələ
Unscheduled	Ağstafa Balakən Füzuli Xocalı Yevlax Zabrat Zaqatala Zəngilan
Under construction	Laçın