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| | Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with an eastern coast on the Caspian Sea. |
 | | Historically, the territory of the present-day Azerbaijan Republic, sometimes referred to as North Azerbaijan, has also been called Arran, named after Arran, a legendary founder of Caucasian Albania. |
 | | The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republic’s population, as well as about a quarter of the population of Iran. |
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