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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 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 CIS, and the OPCW. Azerbaijan is also an observer state of the WTO. (Full article...)

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The Azerbaijan national football team has represented Azerbaijan in international association football since 1992, after the country declared independence following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to this, Azerbaijani players had represented the Soviet Union national football team. Azerbaijan played their first official international match on 17 September 1992 in a friendly against neighbouring country Georgia which ended in a 6–3 defeat for Azerbaijan. They are governed by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) and compete as a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which encompasses the countries of Europe and Israel, after becoming members in 1994, also joining FIFA the same year. As of March 2019, Azerbaijan have played 242 international matches since their debut, winning 47, drawing 66 and losing 129. Azerbaijan have played Moldova and Uzbekistan most frequently, meeting each side ten times. In global and continental competitions, Azerbaijan have competed in qualification groups for both the FIFA World Cup, since 1994, and the UEFA European Championship, since 1996, but have failed to qualify for any tournament finals.

Defender Rashad Sadygov is Azerbaijan's most capped player of all time and is the only player to have accumulated 100 caps for the national team. As of March 2019, Sadygov has played 110 times for the country having made his debut in 2001, against Sweden, and received his last cap in 2017. Gurban Gurbanov, who accumulated 66 caps during his international career, is the country's highest scorer of all time with 12 goals and is the only player to have scored ten or more goals for Azerbaijan as of March 2019. (Full article...)

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... 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 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 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by Sunni scholars?
... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... that Ashiq Peri was the first prominent female folk poet in Azerbaijan?
... that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?

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...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 in the early 1990s, Surat Huseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?

...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?

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Image 1Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 5The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 13Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 1815th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19The 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 20Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 23"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 251996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Mammad 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 32Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3419th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 371748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)

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