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West Azerbaijan province (Persian: استان آذربایجان غربی) [a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia. [10]It is in the northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey (Ağrı, Hakkâri, Iğdır and Van Provinces), Iraq (Erbil and Sulaymaniyah Governorates) and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as well as the Iranian provinces of ...
A list of cities, towns and villages in West Azerbaijan Province of north-western Iran: [1] Alphabetically. Cities are in bold text; all others are villages. A
Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (Persian/Azerbaijani: آذربایجان, romanized: Āzarbāyjān, Persian pronunciation: [ɒːzæɾbɒːjˈdʒɒːn], Azerbaijani pronunciation: [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn]), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, [1] is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq and Turkey to the west and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijani exclave of the Nakhchivan ...
Western Azerbaijan may refer to: Western Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani irredentist concept denoting the Republic of Armenia; West Azerbaijan province, in Iran; See also
The term "Western Azerbaijan" was originally a colloquialism used by some Azerbaijani refugees to refer to the Armenian SSR of the Soviet Union. [3] In the late 1990s, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the independent republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the term began to assume a more geopolitical meaning "as a revivalist project recovering the history of this ...
The provinces of Western Iran. Western Iran consists of Armenian Highlands, northern Zagros and the rich agricultural area of the Khuzestan Plain in the south. It includes the provinces of Kordestan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Lorestan, and Hamadan. Some references also count West Azerbaijan Province and Khuzestan Province to this region.
Relations between Iran and Azerbaijan have improved somewhat since the accession of Hassan Rouhani in Iran. During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, Azerbaijan gained complete control of the western section of the border with Iran within one month from the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, ultimately restoring Azerbaijani control over the ...
The Jugha cemetery was a unique collection of several thousand carved stone crosses on Azerbaijan's southern border with Iran. But after 18 years of conflict between Azerbaijan and its western neighbour, Armenia, it has been confirmed that the cemetery has vanished." [127]