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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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Baku Metro (Azerbaijani: Bakı metropoliteni) is a rapid transit system serving Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. First opened on 6 November 1967 when Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union, its features are typical of former Soviet systems, including very deep central stations and exquisite decorations that blend traditional Azerbaijani national motifs with Soviet ideology. At present, the system has 40.7 kilometres (25.3 mi) of bidirectional tracks, made up of three lines served by 27 stations. The metro is the only in Azerbaijan, the fifth in the Soviet Union and the thirty-fourth in the world. In 2015, it carried 222.0 million, passengers, an average daily ridership of approximately 608,200. In 2019, it carried 229.7 million, an average daily ridership of 629,315.

Baku Metro Closed Joint-Stock Company (Baku Metro CJSC) or (LLC Limited Liability Company), the company which runs the Baku Metro, was founded according Decree No. 289 Of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on February 27, 2014, as a legal successor to Baku Metro and Azertunelmetrotikinti Joint Stock Company. Property along with rights and obligations of Baku Metro and Azertunelmetrotikinti Joint Stock Company were transferred to the newly established Baku Metro CJSC.

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... that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
... 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 Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?
... 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 in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?
... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?

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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 1Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 6Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 7Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 8The 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 9Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 111996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 1315th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 25The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 26Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 28Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Mammad 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 31Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 36The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 3719th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 381748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)

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