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The history of Azerbaijan is ... and here the country merges with the Iranian Plateau. [1] The entity of Caucasian Albania was established on its soil in ancient ...
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.
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. It was also the capital of Shirvan (during the reigns of Akhsitan I and Khalilullah I), the Baku Khanate, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan SSR and the administrative center of Russian Baku governorate. Baku is derived from the old Persian Bagavan, which translates to "City of God". [1]
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.
Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus, mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are Aghwank and Aluank , among the Udi people , who regard themselves as descended from the inhabitants of Caucasian Albania.
Ancient history of Azerbaijan. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Cadusii (15 P) Caucasian Albania (4 C, 29 P)
Ancient history of the Balkans by country (10 C) A. Ancient history of Afghanistan (7 C, 35 P) Ancient Albania (6 C, 1 P) ... Ancient history of Azerbaijan (2 C, 7 P) B.
The battle between the young Ismail and Shah Farrukh Yassar of Shirvan. Shirvan from map of the Caucasus by Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke. 1804. Shirvan (from Persian: شیروان, romanized: Shirvān; Azerbaijani: Şirvan; Tat: Şirvan) [a] is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known in both pre-Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times. [2]