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A view of Baku, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city.

The territory of what is now Azerbaijan was first ruled by Caucasian Albania and later various Persian empires. Until the 19th century, it remained part of Qajar Iran, but the Russo-Persian wars of 1804–1813 and 1826–1828 forced the Qajar Empire to cede its Caucasian territories to the Russian Empire; the treaties of Gulistan in 1813 and Turkmenchay in 1828 defined the border between Russia and Iran. The region north of the Aras was part of Iran until it was conquered by Russia in the 19th century, where it was administered as part of the Caucasus Viceroyalty.

Azerbaijan is a unitary semi-presidential republic. It is one of six independent Turkic states and an active member of the Organization of Turkic States and the TÜRKSOY community. Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 182 countries and holds membership in 38 international organizations, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OSCE, and the NATO PfP program. It is one of the founding members of GUAM, the CIS, and the OPCW. Azerbaijan is also an observer state of the WTO. (Full article...)

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Layout of the Baku City Circuit

The 2016 European Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 19 June 2016 at the Baku City Circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The race was the eighth round of the 2016 season, and marked the twenty-third running of the European Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship and, , the last time the title European Grand Prix was used for a Formula One race. It was the first and last time that the race was held at the circuit and the first time that a Grand Prix had been held in Azerbaijan.

Nico Rosberg entered the round holding a nine-point lead in the World Drivers' Championship ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton. Their team, Mercedes, came in leading Ferrari by seventy-six points in the World Constructors' Championship. Rosberg went on to win the race—his first race win since the Russian Grand Prix—and extended his championship lead to twenty-four points. The result also marked Rosberg's second career grand slam. Sebastian Vettel finished second, with Force India driver Sergio Pérez completing the podium. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes extended their lead over Ferrari to eighty-one points. (Full article...)

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... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... that in 2017 the British travel magazine Wanderlust rated Azerbaijan's electronic visa as the easiest visa to obtain in the world?
... that Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe, an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
... that scholarly study of the poetry of Kishvari, one of the most important Azerbaijani poets of the 15th and 16th centuries, only started in 1928?
... that the 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by Sunni scholars?
... that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?

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...that Huseyn Khan Nakhichevanski (pictured) was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia?

...that Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat?

...that the crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan has been used for centuries in therapeutic baths?

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The following are images from various Azerbaijan-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Arabic inscriptions on the surviving Gate of Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907 Second Russian State Duma. Seated left is Fatali Khan Khoyski; seated right is Khalil Khasmammadov. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 3Early caliphates:
  Muhammad, 622–632

  Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661

  Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 4Iran around 1900 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 5Goytepe site (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 61748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 71996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 8Qajar-style painting of mullahs with the shah (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 9Sasanid silver plate from Shamakhi District (Azerbaijan State Museum of History) (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 10Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 11Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 12Cut pomegranate (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 13The Caucasus after the Treaty of Gulistan, in which Persia ceded most of its northern khanates to Russia after the first Russo-Persian war (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 14Ateshgah of Baku, a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 15Oil derricks in Balaxanı around 1890 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 16Roman inscription in Qobustan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 17Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 18Battle-scene miniature in the Palace of Shaki Khans (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 19Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 20Shah Abbas I at a banquet (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 21Ilham Aliyev in Munich in 2010 (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 22Side view of the Church of Kish (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 23Petroglyphs in Gobustan National Park date back to 10000 BC. (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 24Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 2515th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 26"Hounds and Jackals" game (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 27The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 2819th-century Gasimushaghi carpet from Şəlvə, Lachin (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 29Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 30Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 31Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from Geography of Azerbaijan)
Image 32Gobustan rock art (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 33Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 34Momine Khatun Mausoleum in Nakhchivan (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 35Ismail I's empire (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 36Carpet based on Nizami Ganjavi's 12th-century Layla and Majnun (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 37The Maiden Tower, in Baku's Old City (from Culture of Azerbaijan)
Image 38Heydar Aliyev during a 1997 Pentagon visit (from History of Azerbaijan)
Image 39Mammad Amin Rasulzade, a founder and spokesperson of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, was widely regarded as Azerbaijan's national leader. (from History of Azerbaijan)