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[74] [full citation needed] Between the ninth and 10th centuries, Arab authors began calling the region between the Kura and Aras "Arran". [75] [full citation needed] Arabs from Basra and Kufa came to Azerbaijan, seizing abandoned lands. At the beginning of the eighth century, Azerbaijan was the centre of the caliphate–Khazar–Byzantine wars.
Azerbaijan, [a] officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, [b] is a transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. [10] 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.
The Sasanian monarchs were the rulers of Iran after their victory against their former suzerain, the Parthian Empire, at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224. At its height, the Sasanian Empire spanned from Turkey and Rhodes in the west to Pakistan in the east, and also included territory in what is now the Caucasus, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Central Asia.
On his coins he calls himself the great king Timarchus; but again the legitimate king, Demetrius I, succeeded in subduing the rebellion, and Timarchus was slain. But with Demetrius I, the dissolution of the Seleucid Empire began, brought about chiefly by the intrigues of the Romans , and shortly afterwards, in about 150, the Parthian king ...
This is the list of the heads of state of Azerbaijan from 1918 to the present. 25 people have been head of the Azerbaijani state since its establishment in 1918. It includes leaders of short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–1920), of Soviet Azerbaijan (1920–1991), and of post-Soviet era.
According to local tradition, Christianity entered Caucasian Albania in the 1st century through St. Elisæus of Albania, a disciple of St. Thaddeus of Edessa.The first Christian church in South Caucasus was established in Caucasian Albania by St. Elishe in the village of Kish in the region of Uti, now Sheki district, in north-western Azerbaijan.
The following year, he invaded Shirvan and obtained the places that reached Derbend. At that time, the lands of the Karakoyunlu State included Azerbaijan, Arran, Irâk-ı Acem, Irâk-ı Arab, Persian, Kirman and Eastern Anatolia. The Georgian king and the rulers of Shirvanshah, Gîlan and Mâzenderan also recognized his sovereignty. [78] [72]
Sassanid king, Bahram Gur is a great favourite in Persian tradition and poetry. Depiction of Nizami's "Bahram and the Indian Princess in the Black Pavilion", Khamsa , mid-16th century Safavid era. A manuscript from Nizami's Khamsa dated 1494, depicting Muhammad 's journey from Mecca to the Dome of the Rock to heaven .