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Azerbaijan

lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie
(Reguidit frae Republic o Azerbaijan)

Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), offeecially the Republic o Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası) is the lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie. Locatit at the crossroads o Eastren Europe an Wastren Asie,[5] it is boondit bi the Caspian Sea tae the east, Roushie tae the north, Georgie tae the northwast, Armenie tae the wast, an Iran tae the sooth.

Republic o Azerbaijan

Azərbaycan Respublikası  (Azerbaijani)
Anthem: 
Location o Azerbaijan (green)
Location o Azerbaijan (green)
CaipitalBaku
40°25′N 49°50′E / 40.417°N 49.833°E / 40.417; 49.833
Offeecial leidsAzerbaijani
Ethnic minority leidsArmenian (anerly in Nagorno-Karabakh), Avar, Budukh, Georgie, Juhuri, Khinalug, Kryts, Lezgian, Roushie, Rutul, Tat, Tatar, Tsakhur an Udi
Demonym(s)Azerbaijani
GovrenmentUnitary dominant-pairty semi-presidential republic
• Preses
Ilham Aliyev
Mehriban Aliyeva
Ali Asadov
LegislaturNaitional Assembly
Formation
28 Mey 1918
28 Aprile 1920
• Independence from Soviet Union
30 August 1991 (declared)
18 October 1991 (unthirldom)
25 December 1991 (completit)
• Constitution adopted
12 November 1995
Aurie
• Total
86,600 km2 (33,400 sq mi) (112t)
• Water (%)
1.6
Population
• 2016 estimate
9,754,830[1] (89t)
• Density
112.6/km2 (291.6/sq mi) (103rd)
GDP (PPP)2016 estimate
• Total
$167.905 billion[2]
• Per capita
$17,688[2]
GDP (nominal)2016 estimate
• Tot
$35.686  billion[2]
• Per capita
$3,759[2]
Gini (2008)33.7[3]
medium
HDI (2013)0.751[4]
heich · 76th
CurrencyManat (₼) (AZN)
Time zoneAZT (UTC+04)
Drivin sidericht
Cawin code+994
ISO 3166 codeAZ
Internet TLD.az
Territorial organization

The exclave o Nakhchivan is boondit bi Armenie tae the north an east, Iran tae the sooth an wast, while haein a short borderline wi Turkey tae the northwast. The enclaves o Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı an Sofulu are surroondit bi Armenie an hae been controlled bi it syne the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The majority-Armenian populatit Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest o Azerbaijan declared itself independent frae Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is no diplomatically recognised bi ony naition an is still considered a de jure pairt o Azerbaijan, bein occupied bi Armenian forces.[6][7][8][9]

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic wis the first successfu attempt tae establish a democratic an secular republic in the Muslim warld.[10][11] Nouadays Azerbaijan, a naition wi a majority Turkic[12][13] an Shi‘ite Muslim[14] population, is a secular an a unitary republic wi an auncient an historic cultural heritage. Azerbaijan haes diplomatic relations wi 158 kinrtas sae far an haulds membership in 38 internaitional organisations.[15] Azerbaijan is ane o the foondin members o GUAM an the Organisation for the Prohibition o Chemical Weapons, an jynt the Commonwealth o Independent States in September 1993.[16] On 9 Mey 2006 Azerbaijan wis electit tae membership in the newly established Human Richts Council bi the Unitit Naitions General Assembly. The term o office began on 19 Juin 2006.[17] A Special Envoy o the European Commission is present in the kintra, which is an' a' a member o the Unitit Naitions, the OSCE, the Council o Europe, an the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. The kintra an aa haulds observer status in the Non-Aligned Movement an Warld Tred Organisation an is a correspondent at the Internaitional Telecommunication Union.[15]

Etymology o the name

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Main airticle: History o the name Azerbaijan
 
Azerbaijan is ane o the sax independent Turkic States as o 1991.

The name o Azerbaijan derives frae Atropates,[18][19] a Persian[20][21][22][23][24] satrap unner the Achaemenid Empire, that wis later reinstatit as the satrap o Media unner Alexander the Great.[25][26] The oreeginal etymology o this name is thocht tae hae its roots in the auncient Iranian releegion o Zoroastrianism. In the Avesta, Frawardin Yasht ("Hymn tae the Guardian Angels"), thare is a mention o âterepâtahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide, which literally translates frae Avestan as "we worship the Fravashi o the holy Atare-pata".[27]

Atropates ruled ower the region o Atropatene (present-day Iranian Azerbaijan). The name "Atropates" itself is the Greek transliteration o an Auld-Iranian, probably Median, compoondit name wi the meanin "Protectit bi the (Holy) Fire". The Greek name is mentioned bi Diodorus Siculus an Strabo, an it is continued as ādurbādagān in the Middle Persian geographical text Shahrestānihā i Erānshahr.[28] The wird is translatable as baith "the treasury" an "the treasurer" o fire in Modren Persian.

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ "Azərbaycanda Əhalinin Sayı Açıqlandı" [Population of Azerbaijan Announced] (in Azerbaijani). 15 December 2014.[deid airtin]
  2. ↑ a b c d "Azerbaijan". International Monetary Fund.
  3. ↑ "Gini Index". World Bank. Retrieved 2 Mairch 2011.
  4. ↑ "Human Development Index, 2012 Update". United Nations. 2011. Archived frae the original on 21 Januar 2012. Retrieved 15 Juin 2012. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Azerbaijan mey be considered tae be in Asie an/or Europe. The UN classification o warld regions places Azerbaijan in Wastern Asie; the CIA World Factbook CIA.gov Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, NationalGeographic.com, an Encyclopædia Britannica an' a' place Georgie in Asie. Conversely, numerous sources place Azerbaijan in Europe such as the BBC NEWS.bbc.co.uk, Oxford Reference Online OxfordReference.com, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and www.worldatlas.com.
  6. ↑ Резолюция СБ ООН № 822 от 30 апреля 1993 года
  7. ↑ Резолюция СБ ООН № 853 от 29 июля 1993 года
  8. ↑ Резолюция СБ ООН № 874 14 октября 1993 года
  9. ↑ Резолюция СБ ООН № 884 от 12 ноября 1993 года
  10. ↑ Tadeusz Swietochowski. Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. Columbia University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-231-07068-3, 9780231070683, p.69.
  11. ↑ Reinhard Schulze. A Modern History of the Islamic World. I.B.Tauris, 2000. ISBN 1-86064-822-3, 9781860648229.[page needit]
  12. ↑ "Country Profile: Azerbaijan". British Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). 2009. Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2008. Retrieved 7 Julie 2009."Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2022.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  13. ↑ "Azerbaijan". World Factbook. CIA. 2009. Archived frae the original on 10 Juin 2009. Retrieved 4 Juin 2009. Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "Azerbaijan". Background Note. U.S. Department of State. 2009. Retrieved 4 Juin 2009.
  15. ↑ a b "AUK Foreign Office – Country Profiles: Azerbaijan". FCO.gov.uk. Archived frae the original on 31 Julie 2003. Retrieved 26 Mey 2007. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  16. ↑ "US State Department 1993 Country Reports on Economic Practice and Trade Reports: Azerbaijan". Archived frae the original on 10 Julie 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  17. ↑ "Elections & Appointments – Human Rights Council". Un.org. Retrieved 3 Januar 2009.
  18. ↑ Minorsky, V.; Minorsky, V. "Ādharbaydjān (Azarbāydjān )." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P.Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007. Brill Online. EncIslam.brill.nl[deid airtin].
  19. ↑ Encyclopedia Iranica, "Azerbaijan: Pre-Islamic History", K. Shippmann.
  20. ↑ Miniature Empires: A Historical Dictionary of the Newly Independent States by James Minahan, published in 2000, page 20
  21. ↑ Lendering, Jona. "Atropates (Biography)". Livius.org. Archived frae the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
  22. ↑ Chamoux, Francois. Hellenistic Civilization. Blackwell Publishing, published 2003, page 26
  23. ↑ Bosworth, A.B., and Baynham, E.J. Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction. Oxford, published 2002, page 92
  24. ↑ Encyclopedia Iranica, "Azerbaijan: Pre-Islamic History", K. Shippmann
  25. ↑ Chaumont, M. L. (1989). "Atropates". Encyclopaedia Iranica. 3.1. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Archived frae the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  26. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan by Tadeusz Swietochowski and Brian C. Collins. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (1999), ISBN 0-8108-3550-9. Retrieved 7 June 2006.
  27. ↑ "Frawardin Yasht ("Hymn to the Guardian Angels") – translated by James Darmesteter (From Sacred Books of the East, American Edition, 1898)".
  28. ↑ ed. Touraj Daryaee, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa 2002.
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