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Kelaghayi is found in various dialects of Azerbaijani, Turkish, and Armenian, known as kalagaz in Istanbul, kelāyağı or keleyağı in Kars, kəlağayı in Azerbaijan, and kalaghay in Armenian. Kelaghayi was borrowed from the Armenian term k'alałay (քալաղայ), meaning "silk kerchief" or "city-fashion women's head-covering".
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.
Though the majority of Azerbaijani women have jobs outside the home, women are underrepresented in high-level jobs, including top business positions. [3] As of 2017, 78.1% of all teaching staff (including 51.9% of all university lecturers), 64.9% of all medical staff and 40.2% of athletes in Azerbaijan were women.
The national female costume of Azerbaijan consists of outerwear and underwear. It includes chadra – a suck-formed [clarification needed] shawl – and rubend, a veil that was worn by women when outdoors. Women's outerwear was made of bright and colourful textiles, the quality of which depended on the wealth of the individual or her family.
Traditional art and symbolism of Kelaghayi, making and wearing women’s silk headscarves (2014) KP SR TC: Kalagayi is a square-shaped headdress woven from silk thread belonging to women in Azerbaijan. [26] The art of making kalaghayi, whose origins go back to traditions along the Great Silk Road, is being developed in the city of Shaki and Basgal.
In Azerbaijan, women were granted the right to vote in 1917. [204] Women have attained Western-style equality in major cities such as Baku, although in rural areas more reactionary views remain. [165] Violence against women, including rape, is rarely reported, especially in rural areas, not unlike other parts of the former Soviet Union. [205]
About 3.1% to 4.8% of Azerbaijan's population is nominally Christians, an estimate of between 280,000 and 450,000. [59] Orthodoxy is represented in Azerbaijan by the Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches. The Russian Orthodox churches are part of the Eparchy of Baku and the Caspian Region.
In 1976, Houston and Baku established the first sister-city association between the cities in the U.S. and Azerbaijan. It was followed with a sister city between Honolulu, Hawaii and Baku in 1988, [13] Newark, New Jersey and Ganja (second largest city in Azerbaijan) in the early 2000s (decade), and Monterey, California and Lankaran in 2011. [14]