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	South Azerbaijan (Guney Azerbaycan) - Azerb.com
		South Azerbaijan comprises three provices currently part of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Western Azerbaijan, with its capital in Uromiyeh, Eastern Azerbaijan, with its capital in Tabriz and Ardebil, whose capital is also called Ardebil.
		The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan led by Jafar Pishevari was left at the mercy of the Iranian army and soon collapsed.
		Paradoxically, with the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the question of South Azerbaijan became less important in Baku, as the conflict with Armenia took to centre stage.
	www.travel-images.com /az-south.html (897 words)

	Azerbaijan - MSN Encarta
		Azerbaijan is the easternmost country in the South Caucasus (the southern portion of the region of the Caucasus), which occupies the southern part of the isthmus between the Black and Caspian seas.
		The country is bordered on the north by Russia, on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Iran, on the west by Armenia, and on the northwest by Georgia.
		Azerbaijan also shares a short border with Turkey through its autonomous exclave of Naxçivan (Nakhichevan), which is separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by a mountainous strip of Armenian territory.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561983/Azerbaijan.html (702 words)

	Azerbaijan- Iran Relations: Challenges and Prospects (Event Summary) - Belfer Center for Science and ...
		The inclusion of North Azerbaijan into the Russian Empire, and consequently the cultural differences between the Russians and the Turks, played a significant role in the appearance of the self-awareness of the Azerbaijani Turks; these differences have been expressed in the language, religion, mentality, customs and historical roots.
		The group of intellectuals, industrialists and bureaucrats which: fears the division of Iran; supports the idea of granting to South Azerbaijan (and at the same time to other ethnic-national minorities) cultural or national-territorial autonomy, which is regarded by them as the optimal way of resolution of the Azerbaijan problem.
		Therefore, the current Iranian regime is trying to bring the Azerbaijan Republic into its political orbit, and to eliminate the influence of the Azerbaijan Republic on the Turkish population of Iran.
	www.belfercenter.org /publication/12750/azerbaijan_iran_relations.html (3405 words)

	Azerbaijan
		Azerbaijan or Azarbeijan (Azerbaijani: Azerbaycan, Azerbeycan) is historically and geographically Eurasian and stretches from the Caucasus region, which is adjacent to the Caspian Sea, to northwestern Iran.
		Azerbaijan is the ancestral home of the Azerbaijanis (Azeri Turks or Azeris, amongst other names) who number more than 8 million in the independent Republic of Azerbaijan, and about 20 million in the northwestern region of Iran referred to as Iranian Azerbaijan, or South Azerbaijan.
		In ancient Azerbaijan the majority population before the 3rd century CE in the north consisted of tribes that spoke various Caucasian languages, while in the south Indo-European languages such as those of the Medes and various Eurasian nomads such as the Scythians were predominant.
	www.vugar.4mg.com /about.html (8183 words)

	South Azerbaijan (Guney Azerbaycan) - Azerb.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		South Azerbaijan comprises three provices currently part of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Western Azerbaijan, with its capital in Uromiyeh, Eastern Azerbaijan, with its capital in Tabriz and Ardebil, whose capital is also called Ardebil.
		The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan led by Jafar Pishevari was left at the mercy of the Iranian army and soon collapsed.
		Paradoxically, with the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the question of South Azerbaijan became less important in Baku, as the conflict with Armenia took to centre stage.
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/az-south.html (0 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.
		At the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western 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 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.
	www.azerbaijaniworld.com (280 words)

	The Azerbaijan Question in Iran: A Crucial Issue For Iran's Future
		Despite less territory and a smaller population, North Azerbaijan (Republic of Azerbaijan) is the political, ideological and cultural center of the Azerbaijani Turkish nation.
		The active propaganda on the "absence" of ethnic unity in both North and South Azerbaijan, the increased ideological struggle against Turkism and the Turkic world by official propaganda, the ignorance of existence of independent Azerbaijan by the people are all characteristic features of the official policy of Tehran.
		The extent and intensity of the Azerbaijan question, that is, cultural autonomy, national-territorial autonomy or the demands for full independence will depend on the influence and integrity of ethnic forces, the extent of support for national ideals and finally, foreign factors.
	www.zerbaijan.com /azeri/nasibzade2.html (1753 words)

	Requests for new languages/Wikipedia South Azerbaijan - Meta
		I know old people in Azerbaijan who still be able to read Azerbaijani in Arabic script which been used and taught untill 1923.
		Also I have to point that this is a bit early to have this AZB wiki because of not having enough writers and admins, but having said that in near future and after introducing the wiki to my people in South Azerbaijan, there will be good activity started on that wiki.
		In common project South Azarbayjanies may be know better Latin alphabets and in another hand some of Azarbaijani wiki administrator are from South then they can work better in one project instead of two seperate projects.I request from az.wikipedia adminstraters for changig main page as Kurdish wiki for supporting both alphabets.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_South_Azerbaijan (3588 words)

	Democratic Republic of South Azerbaijan - Biocrawler
		The Democratic Republic of South Azerbaijan, or Azerbaijan People's Government, was a Soviet backed, shortlived attempt (November 1945-November 1946) to acclaim autonomy for the region of Azarbaijan in Iran.
		Following the Soviet occupation of parts of northern Iran during the Second World War attempts were made to secede Azeri speaking parts of Nortwestern Iran by the Azerbaijani Democratic Party under the leadership of Sayyid Jafar Pishevari.
		Many of the leaders sought refuge in the Azerbaijan SSR.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Democratic_Republic_of_South_Azerbaijan (144 words)

	Save People of South Azerbaijan Petition
		We would like to bring to your attention the fact of the violation of ethnic and human rights of millions of Azerbaijani Turks in South Azerbaijan, Iran.
		Since May 22nd, millions of Azerbaijani Turks have demonstrated in the Azerbaijani cities of Tabriz, Urmia, Khoy, Maku, Sulduz (Nagadeh), Meshkin Shahr, Marand, Zanjan, etc., demanding the Iranian regime to stop the cultural and language genocide, and economic suppression against them.
		The Save People of South Azerbaijan Petition to His Excellency Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations was created by Fakhteh Luna Zamani and written by Fakhteh Luna Zamani (southazerbaijan@hotmail.com).
	www.petitiononline.com /tumar/petition.html (557 words)

	South Azerbaijan
		Reza Abbasi, a Zanjani journalist and South Azerbaijani activist, sentenced to one year in prison for 'insulting the leader and senior officials' and making 'propaganda against the system', according to his lawyer, Saeed Khalili.
		The Iranian authorities have generally denied that any deaths occurred during the demonstrations, although a police official acknowledged publicly on 29 May that four people had been killed and 43 injured in Naqadeh.Hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators, are reported to have been detained, of whom Amnesty International has received the names of almost 200.
		As a comparison, the population of the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan (north of Iran) is eight million.
	southazerbayjan.blogspot.com (2598 words)

	Voice of Southern Azerbaijan
		Vafa Culuzadeh, adviser of former Azerbaijan President Ebulfez Elicibey, told the Italian press agency IPS in October 1992 from Baku, that the Israelian secret service specialist David Kimche and...
		Richard Secord, who was involved in the Iran-Contra-Affair, visited Azerbaijan, (and) presented a delegation of more Israelian secret service personnel.
		Vafa Culuzadeh, despite the quote above, is an adviser to the current Azeri president (Heydar Aliyev), and has been an important negotiator between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as between Armenia and secessionists from Nagorno-Karabakh.
	www.qsl.net /yb0rmi/vosa.htm (818 words)

	Azerbaijan Daily Digest
		Mahmudali Chohraganli, leader of the South Azerbaijan national freedom movement,
		For nearly 8 years that the democratic forces of Azerbaijan are holding struggle
		U.S. The United States is ready to strengthen partnership with Azerbaijan in the
	www.eurasianet.org /resource/azerbaijan/hypermail/200110/0057.html (2090 words)

	Middle East Institute: Azerbaijan
		The modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan, on the western coast of the Caspian Sea, is bordered on the north by Russia, on the south by Iran, on the west by Armenia, and on the northwest by Georgia.
		A country at the center of the historic Silk Road, Azerbaijan is located at a strategic crossroads between East and West.
		Azerbaijan, for decades an oil producer, has emerged as a key transit state for Caspian basin oil and gas destined for Western markets.
	www.mideasti.org /countries/countries.php?name=azerbaijan (367 words)

	Azerbaijan History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The North of Azerbaijan was at the time the terrain of Alban tribes, populating the South of Dagestan and down to the right shore lands of the river Kura.
		In 1988, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh declared that the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous District was separating from Azerbaijan and unifying with Armenia.
		The flag of Azerbaijan was changed to that of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, the official name of the country wa s changed to Republic of Azerbaijan, and restraints on the nationalist movement were loosened.
	www.khocaly.s5.com /whats_new.html (0 words)

	Azerbaijan Odlar Yurdu Radio- Keepers of the Fire
		Azerbaijan is a country of ancient history and culture, which is witnessed by numerous relics of the past.
		In the southern Azerbaijan: Tebriz, Urmiye, Ardebil Khoi, Karadagh, Serab, Maraga and Maku khanates.
		Azerbaijan was strongly affected by the autonomy that spread to most parts of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev's liberalized regime in the late 1980s.
	www.radioodlaryurdu.com /Hist.html (0 words)

	Odlar Yurdu - Azerbaijan Website (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Azerbaijan - the ancient land, proud with history of Caucasian Albans and Atropatenians (Medes), later unified under glorious Turkic heritage and culture.
		Stretching from the Great Caucasus Mountains in the North to mount Savalan in the South, and from Caspian Sea in the East to lakes Urmiyeh and Goycheh in the West, Azerbaijan has always been a bridge between the cultures of Europe, Middle East and Asia.
		Few medieval Persian sources claim that the name of Azerbaijan might be coming from "the Land of Fires", namely "azer" (fire) and "baigan" (place) in Persian.
	www1.ics.uci.edu /~javid/azerbaijan/history.html (422 words)

	The Two Azerbaijans: A Common Past And A Common Future
		The recent merger of four Southern Azerbailani (Iranian) political parties as the Front for the National Independence of South Azerbaijan (FNISA) and subsequent remarks on it by the deposed President of Azerbaijan Elchibey have drawn attention to the unification of the two parts of Azerbaijan-Northern and Southern Azerbaijan, or the Azerbaijan Republican and Iranian Azerbaijan.
		Azerbaijan was separated into two parts by the Treaty of Turkmanchay, signed between Russia and Iran in 1828.
		During this same period, guidelines for the symbols of "longing" for Southern Azerbaijan and the history of the entire Southern movement were set down by Jafer Khendan in his 1949 doctoral dissertation "The Ideas of the National Liberation Movement in Southern Azerbaijan," guidelines that are still followed by poets and critics today.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/usazerb/126.htm (2487 words)

	The Azeri Question in Iran:
		Despite less territory and a smaller population, North Azerbaijan (Republic of Azerbaijan) is the political, ideological and cultural center of the Azeri nation.
		South Azerbaijan can be potentially the most faithful and strongest ally in the foreseeable future.
		The active propaganda on the “absence” of ethnic unity in both North and South Azerbaijan, the increased ideological struggle against Turkism and the Turkic world by official propaganda, the ignorance of existence of independent Azerbaijan by the people are all characteristic features of the official policy of Tehran.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/usazerb/334.htm (1691 words)

	News: Caucasus (Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia), South Ossetia braced for new referendum
		South Ossetians do not expect the international community to recognise the results of the referendum, but argue that it is important to proclaim in public their wish to see South Ossetia as an independent state, separate from Georgia.
		Some politicians in South Ossetia see the new referendum initiative as a campaign ploy by Kokoity, saying he is trying to win popularity and boost turnout in the presidential poll.
		Yuri Morozov, South Ossetia's prime minister, responded, "We are holding a referendum not for the OSCE or Council of Europe.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MYOO-6UY3Q8?OpenDocument (1049 words)

	10.4. Forgotten Foods Comparison of the Cuisines of Northern and Southern Azerbaijan by Pirouz Khanlou (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the beginning of the 19th century, Azerbaijan was one territory comprised of khanates and ruled locally under the jurisdiction of the Persian Empire (known at the time as the Union of Gajar States).
		In the South, the majority of women still do not work outside the home and thus are able to carry out the more traditional homemaking tasks for their families, which could account for more regular scheduling.
		For instance, in the South, guests may be invited to sit on carpets as is the tradition, where a "sufra"-tablecloth-is spread.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/ai104_folder/104_articles/104_food_north_south.html (2891 words)

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		The Republic of Azerbaijan covers only a part (northern) of the historical region named as such, whereas, the southern part of the region is situated within Iran, and divided into three districts, Western, Central and Eastern Azerbaijan.
		The roots of present day Azerbaijan trace back to the 4th century BC, with the emergence of the two kingdoms of Caucasian Albania in the north, and the Atropatena in the south.
		Azerbaijan Â«On the state independence of the Azerbaijan RepublicÂ» was adopted, which laid basics of the state, political and economic structure of independent Azerbaijan.
	www.un.int /azerbaijan/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1132595252&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5& (3491 words)

	ARRAN: The Real Name of the Republic of Azerbaijan - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Aliyov, a historian in the former Soviet Azerbaijan, in his article "Sources Relating the Ancient History of Caucasus's Albania", wrote that in the Parthian era, the eastern part of the Caucasus was called "Ardan".
		It borders Iranian Kurdistan and Iraq of Adjam to the south, Turkish Kurdistan and Armenia to the west, Russian Armenia and the Southern Caucasus to the north.
		It was mostly run by immigrants from the Caucasus and the executors of Soviet policy, especially the cronies of Mir-Dja'far Bagherov, the secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Caucasus.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Geography/arran_or_azerbaijan.htm (3023 words)

	CSP - Publication - Azerbaijan- Iran Relations: Challenges and Prospects (Event Summary)
		The inclusion of North Azerbaijan into the Russian Empire, and consequently the cultural differences between the Russians and the Turks, played a significant role in the appearance of the self-awareness of the Azerbaijani Turks; these differences have been expressed in the language, religion, mentality, customs and historical roots.
		The group of intellectuals, industrialists and bureaucrats which: fears the division of Iran; supports the idea of granting to South Azerbaijan (and at the same time to other ethnic-national minorities) cultural or national-territorial autonomy, which is regarded by them as the optimal way of resolution of the Azerbaijan problem.
		Therefore, the current Iranian regime is trying to bring the Azerbaijan Republic into its political orbit, and to eliminate the influence of the Azerbaijan Republic on the Turkish population of Iran.
	bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu /publication.cfm?program=CSP&ctype=event_reports&item_id=50 (3112 words)

	Geography of Azerbaijan Summary
		Azerbaijan is situated in Southwestern Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia.
		The climate varies from subtropical and dry in central and eastern Azerbaijan to subtropical and humid in the southeast, temperate along the shores of the Caspian Sea, and cold at the higher mountain elevations.
		In the Soviet period, Azerbaijan was pressed to use extremely heavy applications of pesticides to improve its output of scarce subtropical crops for the rest of the Soviet Union.
	www.bookrags.com /Geography_of_Azerbaijan (1397 words)

	Exotic Azerbaijan experiences by Elite Travel Consulting
		Azerbaijan is one of the most ancient cradles of global civilization.
		Tribal associations were forming in the territory of Azerbaijan and attempted to establish political unions in the 23d century.
		Ignoring the state sovereignty of Azerbaijan, the Soviet Russia sent down the XI Red Army corps to Azerbaijan in late April 1920.
	www.elitetravelconsulting.com /azerbaijan.htm (892 words)

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