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The name "Azerbaijan", adopted by the party for political reasons, [14] [15] had been used to identify the adjacent region of northwestern Iran. [16] [17] [18] It was the Islamic world's first democratic republic. In Baku, however, a coalition of Bolsheviks, Dashnaks and Mensheviks fought against a Turkish Islamic army led by Nuri Pasha.
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.
Khurshidbanu Natavan was the daughter of Mehdi Gulu–khan, the last ruler of the Karabakh khanate (1748–1822); she is considered one of the best lyrical poets of Azerbaijan. Mikayil Mushfig was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. Though he was not opposed to the Soviets, his name was entered in a list of counter-revolutionaries by his own ...
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.
Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan (Azerbaijani: Uzun Həsən; Persian: اوزون حسن; where uzun means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic; 1423 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman [5] Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. [6]
The Ildegizids, [4] Eldiguzids [5] [6] or Ildenizids, also known as Atabegs of Azerbaijan [7] [8] (اتابکان آذربایجان Atabakan-e Āzarbayjan) were an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire, and a Sunni Muslim Turkic [6] dynasty [9] (started by Eldiguz of Kipchak [6] origin), which controlled most of northwestern Persia, [5] eastern ...
Many place names in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan have Persian roots. Tabriz, Baku, Absheron, Ganja, and the country (as well as people) name itself Azerbaijan, are just a few examples. Also, many of the cities in these regions were founded before Turkic tribes reached the area.
Azerbaijan in antiquity covers the history of the territory of today's Azerbaijan in the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout much of Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, as well as the Caucasus.