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Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country 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 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 also an observer state of the World Trade Organization. (Full article...)

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The sack of Shamakhi took place on 18 August 1721, when rebellious Sunni Lezgins, within the declining Safavid Empire, attacked the capital of Shirvan province, Shamakhi (in present-day Azerbaijan Republic). The initially successful counter-campaign was abandoned by the central government at a critical moment and with the threat then left unchecked, Shamakhi was taken by 15,000 Lezgin tribesmen, its Shia population massacred, and the city ransacked.

The deaths of Russian merchants within Shamakhi were subsequently used as a casus belli for the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723, leading to the cessation of trade between Iran and Russia and the designation of Astrakhan as the new terminus on the Volga trade route. (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 with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
... 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 a 14th-century work, originally attributed to another poet, was discovered in 2018 to be the creation of the Azerbaijani poet Yusuf Meddah?
... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... 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?

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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 1Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 141748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 1519th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2015th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Mammad 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 22Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 231996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24The 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 25Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 36"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 37The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)

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