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	Azerbaijan - History
		Azerbaijan or Azerbeijan (Azerbaijani: Azerbaycan, Azerbeycan) is a historical country and territory situated in a crossroads between Eastern Europe and western Asia, adjacent to the Caspian Sea.
		Azerbaijan is often referred to as "the land of eternal flames" and "the land of fire", for it is in Azerbaijan, in lands both north and south of the Araz river, where natural gas spontaniously erupts from the ground in the form of fire flames, as it has since antiquity.
		Azerbaijan's oldest structure is a tower that stands in the middle of Baku on the bay.
	www.azerbaijan-tourism.com /History-3.html (3213 words)

	History of Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijan combines the heritage of two venerable civilizations--the Seljuk Turks of the 11th century and the ancient Persians.
		Finally the Russians split Azerbaijan's territory with Persia in 1828 by the Treaty of Turkmenchay, establishing the present frontiers and extinguishing the last native dynasties of local Azerbaijani khans.
		Azerbaijan received de facto recognition by the Allies as an independent nation in January 1920, an independence terminated by the arrival of the Red Army in April.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/azerbaijan.html (1055 words)

	Azerbaijan Development Gateway
		Azerbaijan is one of the oldest spots of civilization, a country with a rich and ancient history.
		Azerbaijan was conquered by Arabs at the beginning of the 8th century and made part of the Arab Khalifat as the vilayet Arran.
		Azerbaijan as a peaceloving State is willing to live in peace in the atmosphere of mutually beneficial cooperation and understanding with all countries and nations, especially with its neighbors.
	www.gateway.az /eng/country/history.shtml (1747 words)

	Azerbaijan HISTORY
		In the 11th century Azerbaijan was invaded by Oguz Turks, of the Seljuk dynasty.
		In the 1230s Azerbaijan was conquered by Genghiz Khan, whose power remained in the Il-Khanid state, which at the end of the 14th century was displaced by the armies of Tamerlaine.
		Azerbaijan was invaded by the Russian Bolsheviks'; Red Army in April 1920, and Azerbaijan was declared a Soviet state.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/Azerbaijan-HISTORY.html (1889 words)

	History of Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijan combines the heritage of two venerable civilizations--the Seljuk Turks of the 11th century and the ancient Persians.
		After the decline of the Arab Empire, Azerbaijan was ravaged during the Mongol invasions but regained prosperity in the 13th-15th centuries under the Mongol II-Khans, the native Shirvan Shahs, and under Persia's Safavid Dynasty.
		Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - was briefly independent from 1918 to 1920; it regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
	infotut.com /geography/Azerbaijan (386 words)

	History of Azerbaijan, travel to Azerbaijan, travelling to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan tours, travel agency Azerbaijan, ...
		In the treaty of Gulistan Persia and Russia agreed that Azerbaijan would be divided along the Araz River, with Russian Azerbaijan north of the river, and Iranian Azerbaijan to the South.
		Nakhichevan's close ties to Azerbaijan were confirmed by the Russo-Turkish Treaty of Moscow and the Treaty of Kars among the three Transcaucasian states and Turkey, both signed in 1921.
		Encouraged by the mood of Perestroika and Glasnost, in February 1988 the Nagorno-Karabagh Regional Assembly formally requested that the region be transferred to neighbouring Armenia.
	www.azerbaijan24.com /azerbaijan_traditions/history (4337 words)

	Azerbaijan Europe - Pictures, Travel, Best Sites and Maps
		On the south slopes of the Caucasus Mountains and in the valleys immediately south of the mountains are the states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
		Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 800,000 refugees and internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict.
		Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the former Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its long-term prospects.
	azerbaijan.europe-countries.com (2589 words)

	Azerbaijan Travel - Information, Pictures, History, and Maps
		Azerbaijan will surprise you with its nature too: there are high mountain ridges and plains, semi deserts and woodlands, seas and rivers.
		Port city Baku, a cultural, industrial, political capital of Azerbaijan, is located on the western coast of the Caspian Sea, on the shores of the same name gulf in southern part of Absheron Peninsula rich in oil deposits.
		For all its centuries-old history this city was exposed to numerous destructions.
	www.advantour.com /azerbaijan (1454 words)

	History of Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the northwest of Azerbaijan on the Aveydag Mountain and in the caves of Azikh in Garabag were founded stone labor instruments.
		The economic and cultural rise of Azerbaijan was interrupted in 20-30 years of the 13th century bu the Mongolian invasion, and from the end of the 14th century intrusions of Tamerlane"s armies were carried out to Azerbaijan.
		Certificates of a centuries-old history of Azerbaijan are monuments of a history and culture.
	azerbaijan.orexca.com /eng/info/history.html (1440 words)

	Azerbaijan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Azerbaijan politics and officials, Azerbaijan History. Travel to ...
		Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: AzÉrbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: AzÉrbaycan RespublikasÄ±), is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.
		The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest.
		The Nagorno-Karabakh region in the country's southwest declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991.
	www.azerbaijaniworld.com (280 words)

	Azerbaijan History, Brief History of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan information.
		The first kingdom to emerge in the territory of present-day Republic of Azerbaijan was Mannae in the 9th century BC, lasting until 616 BC when it became part of the Median Empire, which later became part of the Persian Empire in 549 BC.
		After Safavids, Azerbaijan underwent a brief period of feudal fragmentation in the mid-18th to early 19th centuries, and consisted of independent khanates.
		In 1936, the TSFSR was dissolved and Azerbaijan became constituent republic of the USSR as the Azerbaijan SSR.
	www.korpubinatikinti.com /history.php (746 words)

	History of Azerbaijan - Azerb.com
		In the treaty of Gulistan Persia and Russia agreed that Azerbaijan would be divided along the Araz River, with Russian Azerbaijan north of the river, and Iranian Azerbaijan to the South.
		Azerbaijan was occupied by Ottoman Turkish troops until the end of World War I in November 1918.
		Nakhichevan's close ties to Azerbaijan were confirmed by the Russo-Turkish Treaty of Moscow and the Treaty of Kars among the three Transcaucasian states and Turkey, both signed in 1921.
	www.travel-images.com /az-hist.html (4649 words)

	9.3 Writing Azerbaijan's History - Digging for the Truth - Farid Alakbarov
		Of course, "History of Azerbaijan" had many shortcomings, since it was written from the Communist ideological position.
		For example, in 1991, Aydin Balayev wrote that Georgia was a military ally of Azerbaijan during the ADR period of 1918-1920.
		The KGB of Azerbaijan was transformed into the Ministry of National Security (MNS), which says it wants to reveal all of the crimes of the Stalinist period.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/93_folder/93_articles/93_farid_alakbarov.html (7420 words)

	History of Azerbaijan - as found on the Azeri embassy website in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The history of Soviet Azerbaijan began with the suppression of armed uprisings in various parts of the country.
		As it turned out, the issue of Iranian Azerbaijan became one of the first conflicts of the Cold War, and under pressure by the Western powers, the Soviet army was withdrawn.
		Of these organizations, by far the strongest was the People's Front of Azerbaijan (PFA), which by the fall of 1989 seemed to be poised to take power from the Communist Party.
	www.kiffer.us /azeri_info/history_of_azerbaijan-emb.htm (2764 words)

	Horoscope of Azerbaijan: 30 August 1991
		Azerbaijan Horoscopes of Countries, Mundane Astrology, Nations, Information about Azerbaijan, Astrocartography of Azerbaijan, Mundane Horoscope of Azerbaijan, Astrology Chart of Azerbaijan, Independence of Azerbaijan, History of Azerbaijan, Political Astrology
		Source: "Azerbaijan proclaimed independence from the USSR on 30 August 1991 sometime before 10:00 a.m.
		Political Astrology, History of Azerbaijan, Independence of Azerbaijan, Mundane Astrology Chart of Azerbaijan, Astrocartography of Azerbaijan, Mundane Horoscope of Azerbaijan, Chart of Azerbaijan, Astrocartography, Maps, Information about Azerbaijan, Astrology Charts of Nations, Horoscopes of Countries, Azerbaijan
	members.tripod.com /tra_nations/a_azerbaijan.htm (232 words)

	Azerbaijan Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Azerbaijan has been hosting travellers since silk worms started to spin.
		Azerbaijan was once a major stopover on the Great Silk Route, and there are many captivating sights to see in this ancient country - Bronze Age petroglyphs, medieval minarets and mosques, the famous carpets.
		When To Go The best time to visit Azerbaijan is between April and October when it's warm and dry in much of the country.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/azerbaijan (297 words)

	Virtual Azerbaijan (VAR): Azerbaijan History and Research section / Zerbaijan.com
		Turkic presence in Azerbaijan, and the region, in the first Millenia A.D. Turkic Ethnogenesis New website, with research on the etnogenesis of Turkic nomads developed with the assistance of historians from Azerbaijan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.
		Necessity of preventing of the threats imposed by the Blockade Policy of the Republic of Armenia towards the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Doc.
		The attempts of annexing these territories by force (in the period of the British occupation of Transcaucasus) led to the war with Georgia (December, 1918) and long bloody struggle with Azerbaijan resulted in reduction of contested regions' population by 10-30%, and a number of settlements were literally wiped off the face of the earth.
	www.zerbaijan.com /var/history.htm (2726 words)

	American History and World History
		Contact US American History as well as World History is what you find at History's home on the web.
		We have complete time lines of major events in American History as well as World History.We have special sections on diverse subjects ranging from Presidential Elections to Naval History.
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	www.historycentral.com (256 words)

	History. Parties, NGOs. Azerbaijan Internet Links
		Azerbaijan, Paradise of The Region and "Motherland" For All the Azerbaijanis Living Around The World
		These are the history of money of the Republic of Azerbaijan
		Independent, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to facilitate business and cooperation between the U.S. and Azerbaijan.
	resources.net.az /7.htm (143 words)

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