Azerbaijan is an economy that has completed its post-Soviet transition into a major oil based economy ( with the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ), from one where the state played the major role.

Since 2001, the economic activity in the country is regulated by the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan Republic.

The following is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Azerbaijan at market prices with figures in millions of Manats.

Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership ; World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies ; the International Monetary Fund ; and the World Bank.

Armenia is a landlocked country in the Transcaucasia region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhchivan Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.

It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

* 1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

Baku (, ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region.

Domitian is also credited on the easternmost Roman evidence known, the rock inscription near Boyukdash mountain, in present-day Azerbaijan.

In the real world, this is not true ( e. g., Alaska as part of the United States, Nakhchivan as part of Azerbaijan, and Kaliningrad as part of Russia are not contiguous ).

The Ja ' fari school ( Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bahrain, India and Saudi Arabia ) is associated with Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq.

During the time of the Ottomans the crescent began to be associated with Islam and this is reflected on the flags of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan and of Tunisia.

The Drake well is often referred to as the " first " commercial oil well, although that title is also claimed for wells in Azerbaijan, Ontario, West Virginia, and Poland, among others.

Islamic armies conquered part of Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Armenia, and what is now the modern-day post-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and surrounded the Byzantine heartland ( present-day Turkey ) in a pincer movement which extended from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus and the southern shores of the Caspian.

Militarily, Murad IV's reign is most notable for the war against Persia in which Ottoman forces invaded Azerbaijan, occupied Revan, Tabriz and Hamadan, and recaptured Baghdad in 1638.

The small Garmon accordion played in the Music of Azerbaijan sometimes has keys that can play microtones when a " shift " key is pressed.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

* 1991 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.

The Soviet Union came into being under the treaty of union in December 1922, which was signed by Russia and three other union republics – Belarus, Ukraine, and what was then the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ( an entity including what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ).

Beginning in 1991, two more census have been carried out in Azerbaijan: one in 1999 and one in 2009.

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

Secondly, one must regard the question of legality of unconstitutional acts, such as violating the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

Modern literature in Azerbaijan is based on the Shirvani dialect mainly, while in Iran it is based on the Tabrizi one.

All along the Zagros mountain range from Azerbaijan to the Arabian Sea, pastoral tribes move back and forth with their herds every year between their home in the valley and one in the foothills.

This was a quite different rhetoric, a more pragmatic one likely reflecting the reality that the ex-Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan had substantial Islamic political movements-similar to those in Turkey and Pakistan, relatively modern in tone and willing to participate in the US War on Terrorism to some degree, although not as direct combatants.

It was an ancient tale about Malik Mammad, the son of one of the wealthiest kings of Azerbaijan.

The region remains one of the most complicated in the post-Soviet area, and comprises three heavily disputed areas – Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.

At the end of and first year after World War II the Academy consisted of eight divisions ( Physico-Mathematical Science, Chemical Sciences, Geological-Geographical Sciences, Biological Science, Technical Science, History and Philosophy, Economics and Law, Literature and Languages ); three committees ( one for coordinating the scientific work of the Academies of the Republics, one for scientific and technical propaganda, and one for editorial and publications ), two commissions ( for publishing popular scientific literature, and for museums and archives ), a laboratory for scientific photography and cinematography and Academy of Science Press departments external to the divisions ; 7 filials ( Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Urals, and West Siberian ), and 8 independent of central Academies in Ukraine, Belorussia, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Latvia, and Estonia.

Azerbaijan's successor order is that of National Hero of Azerbaijan and Armenia's own hero medal is that of National Hero of Armenia, both modeled on the Soviet one.

The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic ( Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist Respublikası ; Azerbaydzhanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika ), also known as the Azerbaijan SSR or Soviet Azerbaijan for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union.

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.

The Popular Front of Azerbaijan ( PFA ) was an organisation in Azerbaijan that united a number of informal public organisations into one, working towards independence from the Soviet Union.

Azerbaijan became the first republic in the former USSR and one of the first in the former Socialist bloc which succeeded in achieving a full and unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops.

In particular, Akunin plans to write at least two more Erast Fandorin books, including one more novel ( which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, tentatively named Black City, and another collection of short stories and novellas, similar in structure to The Jade Rosary and taking place entirely during the 20th century

Nesîmî is venerated in the modern Republic of Azerbaijan, and one of the districts of the capital city, Baku, bears his name.

Unlike most national anthems, few of which were composed by renowned composers, the state anthems were composed by some of the best Soviet composers, including world-renowned Gustav Ernesaks ( Estonia ), Aram Khatchaturian ( Armenia ), Otar Taktakishvili ( Georgia ) and Uzeyir Hajibeyov ( Azerbaijan ).

During his last few years he was very often awarded: Azerbaijan ( 1934 ), the Russian Soviet Republic ( 1936 ), Uzbekistan ( 1937 ) and the USSR ( 1938 ) appointed him Artist of the People.

Occasionally other venues were also used: Molodechno City Stadium in May 1996 ( friendly against Azerbaijan ), Vitebsky Central Sport Complex in Vitebsk in November 2005 ( friendly against Latvia ), Central Stadion in Gomel in October 2007 ( Euro 2008 qualifying match against Luxembourg ), Neman Stadium in Grodno June 2009 ( 2010 World Cup qualifier against Andorra ), Borisov City Stadium just a few days later ( friendly against Moldova ) and Regional Sport Complex Brestskiy in Brest in October 2009 ( another 2010 World Cup quallifier against Kazakhstan ).

Within the next few months, Mahmoud Panahian started recruiting people, organizing anti-Shah radio broadcasts and publishing his lifetime work started in Baku, Azerbaijan: “ The Geographical Dictionary of Iranian Nationalities ”.

All these ( with exception of Lezgian, Talysh, Avar and Georgian which have much larger number of speakers outside Azerbaijan, but nevertheless their usage is steadily declining ) above mentioned languages are endangered languages which are threatened with extinction as they are spoken by few ( less than 10, 000 ) or very few ( less than 1, 000 ) people and their usage is steadily declining with immigration and modernisation.