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Azerbaijan



Azərbaycan

Azərbaycan 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.

English 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 ► Nakhchivan 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 ► Artsakh region in the southwest of Azerbaijan Proper declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is not recognized by any nation.

Other languages Русский:[1] Азербайджанская Республика (Azerbajdžanskaâ Respublika), Азербайджа́н — государство в восточной части Закавказья (Южного Кавказа), на юго-западном побережье Каспийского моря.

Short name  Azerbaijan
Official name Republic of Azerbaijan
Status Independent country since 1991
Location Caucasus
Capital Bakı (Baku)
Population 10,067,108 inhabitants
Area 86,600 square kilometres (33,400 sq mi)
Major languages Azerbaijani
Major religions Islam
More information Azerbaijan, Geography of Azerbaijan, History of Azerbaijan and Politics of Azerbaijan
More images Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan (Category).

General maps

Location of Azerbaijan
Map of Azerbaijan
Map of Azerbaijan
Districts of Azerbaijan
Districts of Azerbaijan (in Azeri)
Location of the exclave of Nakhchivan
Map of Nakkhichevan
Sub-divisions of Nakhchivan
Map of Azerbaijan with the Armenian-occupied territories (1994-2020)
Map of Azerbaijan with Russian peacekeeper controlled territories

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.

The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC
Caucasian Albania in 290 BCE
Ancient Caucasian Albania
Ancient Caucasian Albania
Greater Armenia around 95-66 BC
The Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Persian Achaemenid Empire
The Parthian Empire (250 BCE-226 CE)
Map of Parthia ands Scythia 100 BC
Sassanid Empire
The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control.
Sassanide Empire
Sassanide Empire
Ancient Azerbaijan called "(Caucasian) Albania", during Roman emperor Trajan conquests
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of the Caliphs
Caliphate around 750
Iran around 1000
The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
The Khwarezmid Empire around 1220
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:

 
Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)
The Timurid Empire 1405
The Timurid Empire 1405
Territories of Northern and Southern Khanates (and Sultanates) of Azerbaijan in 18th-19th centuries
History of the Russian Empire (in German)
Administrative division of Russia 1848-1878 (in Russian)
Map of Baku Governorate (late XIX century)
[[|border|251x400px]] Elisabethpol Governorate. Russian Empire, XIX and beginnig XX century, today Azerbaijan.
The Russian Empire in 1914
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic 1918
Regions of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Map of Turkey in Asia, Syria, Palestine, Hejaz and Arabia by Frank Moore Colby
Russia becomes the Soviet Union in 1922. In 1922 Azerbaijan becomes constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
European part of the USSR in the 1920s
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1928.
Autonomous area (Red Kurdistan) in Azerbaijan which existed from 1923 to 1929
Evolution of the Soviet Union
The republics of the USSR
Azerbaijan inside the USSR
[[|border|251x400px]] Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union
Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989
Map of the Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic 1993

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.

map of Caucasus from 1770

Satellite maps

Satellite map

Notes and references

General remarks:

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  1. Russian is spoken by a minority of ca. 3 % as native language

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