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Azerbaijan
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Azərbaycan |
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Azərbaycan - Azərbaycan Respublikası
Azərbaycan Respublikası, Qafqazda, böyük bir hissəsi cənub-qərbi Asiyaya, şimalda kiçik bir hissəsi ilə Avropaya daxil olan və Xəzər dənizinə sahili olan dövlət.
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Azerbaijan - Republic of Azerbaijan
The Republic of Azerbaijan is a country in the South Caucasus. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, the ► Russian republic of ► Dagestan to the north, ► Georgia to the northwest, ► Armenia to the west, and ► Iran to the south. The ► Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and ► Turkey to the northwest. The ► Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest of Azerbaijan Proper declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is not recognized by any nation.
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Русский[1]: Азербайджанская Республика (Azerbajdžanskaâ Respublika), Азербайджа́н — государство в восточной части Закавказья (Южного Кавказа), на юго-западном побережье Каспийского моря. |
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Azerbaijan |
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Republic of Azerbaijan |
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Independent country since 1991 |
| Location |
Caucasus |
| Capital |
Bakı (Baku) |
| Population |
8,411,000 inhabitants |
| Area |
86,600 km² |
| Major languages |
Azerbaijani |
| Major religions |
Islam |
| More information |
Azerbaijan, Geography of Azerbaijan, History of Azerbaijan and Politics of Azerbaijan |
| More images |
Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan (Category). |
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General maps
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Location of Azerbaijan |
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Map of Azerbaijan |
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Map of Azerbaijan |
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Districts of Azerbaijan (in Azeri) |
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Sub-divisions of Nakhichevan |
Secession of Nagorno-Karabakh
- See also Atlas of Nagorno-Karabakh
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Subdivisions of Nagorno-Karabakh |
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Nagorno-Karabakh occupation map #1 |
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Nagorno-Karabakh occupation map #2 |
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Ethnic map of Nagorno-Karabakh |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Azerbaijan, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Azerbaijan.
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The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC |
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The Region 189-63 BC |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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Indo-Sassanide Empire |
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The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control. |
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Sassanide Empire |
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Sassanide Empire |
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Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
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Caliphate around 750 |
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Iran around 1000 |
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The region 1089-1125 |
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Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)
Mongol Empire
By 1294 the empire had split into:
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History of the Russian Empire (in German) |
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Administrative division of Russia 1848-1878 (in Russian) |
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The Russian Empire in 1914 |
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Map of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. |
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European part of the USSR in the 1920s |
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Evolution of the Soviet Union |
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The republics of the USSR |
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Azerbaijan inside the USSR |
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Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union |
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Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989 |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.
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Caucasus in 1729 |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
- ↑ Russian is spoken by a minority of ca. 3 % as native language
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