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Introduction

Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası), is a country in the Caucasus region. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest. Azerbaijan is a secular state, and has been a member of the Council of Europe since 2001. The Azerbaijani people (or simply Azeris) are the majority population, most of whom are at least nominally adherents of Islam.

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The Azerbaijanis (IPA: [æzəbaɪˈdʒɑːnɪ]; in Azerbaijani: Azərbaycanlılar) are an ethnic group mainly found in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijanis, commonly referred to as Azeris, live in a wider area from the Caucasus to the Iranian plateau. The Azeris are typically at least nominally Muslim and have a mixed cultural heritage of Turkic, Iranian, and Caucasian elements. Despite living on both sides of an international border, the Azeris form a single group. However, northerners and southerners differ due to nearly two centuries of separate social evolution in Russian/Soviet-influenced Azerbaijan and Iranian Azarbaijan.

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A lake in Qabaladistrict of Azerbaijan edit

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The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline) transports crude oil 1,760 km (1,094 miles) from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It passes through Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, hence its name. It is the second longest oil pipeline in the world (the longest being the Druzhba pipeline from Russia to central Europe).

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To be created:

Nasib bey Usubbeyov
Isa bey Hajinski
Suleyman Valiyev
Vagif Mustafayev
Gasim bey Hajibababeyov
Mirza Jafar Topchubashov
Eldar Guliyev
Hasan Turabov
Valeh Barshadly
Meshadi Mirza Gafar
Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Azeri

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Portal Information

Established: 5 July 2006
Creator: Grandmaster
Maintainers: Grandmaster & Baku87

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Azerbaijan news

May 20, 2008: Azerbaijan made its début at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 taking part in the first semi-final on 20 May 2008. Elnur Huseynov and Samir Javadzadeh performed the song Day After Day‎ and qualified to the Eurovision final on Sunday 24 May 2008.

May 7, 2008: "Great Britain supports the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and considers Nagorno Karabakh its integral part", stated the British Minister of State for Europe Jim Murphy at a press conference in Baku. (Today.az)

March 31, 2008: The prominent Soviet statesman, former deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan), Nikolai Baibakov died in Moscow at the age of 98. Nikolay Baibakov was born in 1911 in Azerbaijan, and graduated from the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (1932).

January 23, 2008: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers reached an agreement on construction of the first nuclear research reactor in Azerbaijan. The capacity of the reactor will be 20-25 MWt. According to IAEA representative in Azerbaijan, the construction of a nuclear power plant in Azerbaijan will be the topic of future discussions with the government of Azerbaijan. (Trend)

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Nesîmî (نسيمى) (?–1417?) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: مخلص mahlas) of one of the greatest poets of the Azerbaijani and Divan traditions, who was the first to write using the Azerbaijani language in its modern form.

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Did you know...

...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?

...that Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature?

...that during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-missile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?