Azerbaijani sources insist that Armenian victory was largely due to military help from Russia and the wealthy Armenian diaspora.

A key revisionist method used by Azerbaijani scholars mentioned by Victor Schnirelmann and others was ” re-publishing of ancient and medieval sources, where the term “ Armenian state ” was routinely and systematically removed and replaced with “ Albanian state .” American author George Bournoutian gives examples of how that was done by Ziya Bunyadov, vice-chairman of Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences, who earned the nickname of “ Azerbaijan ’ s foremost Armenophobe .”

According to some sources, Basayev moved to Azerbaijan in 1992, where he aided Azerbaijani forces in their unsuccessful war against Armenian fighters in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

As this causes some confusion with similarly named dialects ( Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan ), scholarly sources tend simply to use a more descriptive name, like Persian Azerbaijani Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

Azerbaijani and Turkish sources occasionally refer to the massacre as Khojaly Genocide (, ) and the Khojaly Tragedy ().

Shaki has always played a central role in Azerbaijani art and more generally in the art and architecture of Azerbaijan.

" And today we say with pride and love, that the great son of Armenian people Stepan is also the son of Azerbaijani people, all people of Transcaucasia, all multinational and united Soviet people ".

In translation from Azerbaijani, it means " big settlement " (" aghja " – big, " badi " – residence, settlement ).

Shusha was the only large settlement within the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast that had a predominantly Azerbaijani population.

The national currency, the Azerbaijani manat, was stable in 2000, depreciating 3. 8 % against the dollar.

Armenians partially deny the allegation, claiming that Russian side was equally supplying Armenian and Azerbaijani sides with weapons and mercenaries.

He was the only child of İrma Felekyan ( Toto Karaca ) of Armenian origin, a popular opera, theatre and movie actress, and Mehmet İbrahim Karaca of Azerbaijani origin .< ref name =" aksiyon040216 ">

Violence against local Azerbaijanis was reported on Soviet television, provoking massacres of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait.

The Nagorno-Karabakh movement ’ s original slogan of miatsum (‘ union ’) was explicitly oriented towards unification with Armenia, feeding an Azerbaijani understanding of the conflict as a bilateral one between itself and an irredentist Armenia.

The eight-page Azerbaijani satirical periodical was published in Tiflis ( from 1906 to 1917 ), Tabriz ( in 1921 ) and Baku ( from 1922 to 1931 ) in the Azeri and occasionally Russian languages.

The magazine was frequently banned but had a lasting influence on Azerbaijani and Iranian literature.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yerevan city's population was over 29, 000, of which 49 % were Azerbaijani Tatars, 48 % Armenians and 2 % Russians.

Iliescu was awarded with Azerbaijani Istiglal Order for his contributions to development of Azerbaijan-Romania relations and strategic cooperation between the states by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on October 6, 2004.

Classical literature in Azerbaijani was formed in 14th century based on the various Early Middle Ages dialects of Tabriz and Shirvan ( these dialects were used by classical Azerbaijani writers Nasimi, Fuzuli, and Khatai ).

The first newspaper in Azerbaijani, Əkinçi was published in 1875.

In 1899 a silver plate featuring Roman toreutics was excavated near Azerbaijani village of Qalagah.

The rock inscription near the south-eastern part of Boyukdash's foot ( 70 km from Baku ) was discovered on June 2, 1948 by Azerbaijani archaeologist Ishag Jafarzadeh.

Armenian heritage was the main but not the only target of attacks of Azerbaijani historians and politicians.

In November 2010 the Azerbaijani carpet was proclaimed a Masterpiece of Intangible Heritage by UNESCO.

Shevarnadze was awarded with Azerbaijani Istiglal Order for his contributions to development of Azerbaijan – Georgia relations and strategic cooperation between the states by President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev on 1 March 2000.

This was fulfilled when Nariman Narimanov, leader of Bolshevik Azerbaijan issued a declaration celebrating the " victory of Soviet power in Armenia ," proclaimed that both Nakhchivan and Zangezur should be awarded to the Armenian people as a sign of the Azerbaijani people's support for Armenia's fight against the former DRA government:

The Azerbaijani Popular Front Party ( APFP ) () is an opposition political party in Azerbaijan, founded in 1992 by Abulfaz Elchibey.

The club was founded in 2004 by Azerbaijani entrepreneur Mubariz Mansimov and dubbed by the local media as " Caucasian Chelsea " due Khazar's strong financial position.

The ADR was founded by the Azerbaijani National Council in Tiflis on 28 May 1918 after the collapse of the Russian Empire.

During the Soviet period, after the official term Azerbaijani had been introduced in the late 1930s, the ethnic self-consciousness of Tats changed greatly and many started to call themselves Azerbaijani.

In late March 1920 the Armenian half of the police forces was reported by a British journalist to have murdered the Azerbaijani half during the latter's traditional Novruz Bayram holiday celebtrations.

The historical development of Azerbaijani can be divided into two major periods: early ( c. 16th to 18th century ) and modern ( 18th century to present ).

Azerbaijani served as a lingua franca throughout most parts of Transcaucasia ( except the Black Sea coast ), in Southern Dagestan, Eastern Turkey, and Iranian Azerbaijan from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

The Qanun ( Persian: qānūn ; Greek: κανονάκι, plural κανονάκια ; Armenian: քանոն k ’ anon ; Arabic: qānūn, plural qawānīn ; Azerbaijani and Turkish: kanun ; qanún or kanun ) is a string instrument found in the 10th century in Farab in Iran.

The beginning of 20th century saw an outbreak in ethnic tensions between the Armenian and Azerbaijani populations in the Caucasus, culminating in the Armenian-Tatar massacres.

" The monastery was inside Georgia only in the 12th century ," stated Ismail Umudlu, an Azerbaijani journalist and historian.

The Divan and Ghazal styles, introduced by Nesimi in Azerbaijani poetry in 15th century, were further developed by poets Qasim al-Anvar, Fuzuli and Khatai ( pen-name of Safavid Shah Ismail I ).

The 16th century poet, Muhammed Fuzuli produced his timeless philosophical and lyrical Qazals in Arabic, Persian, and Azerbaijani.

In the 16th century, Azerbaijani literature further flourished with the development of Ashik () poetic genre of bards.

Azerbaijani literature of the nineteenth century was profoundly influenced by the Russian conquest of the territory of present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, as a result of Russo-Persian Wars.

The area of the Northwestern Iranian languages was largely overrun by Turkic languages, subsequently known as Azeri or Azerbaijani, introduced in the eleventh century.

According to the Azerbaijani historians, the name of the town goes back to the ethnonym of the Sakas, who reached the territory of modern day Azerbaijan in the 7th century B. C.

The Armenian quarters of Shusha ( with the Cathedral of the Holy Savior in the background ) in the early 20th century, before their Shusha pogrom | destruction by Azerbaijani military units in 1920.

* Huseyn Javid ( 1882 – 1941 ), prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the early 20th century

Winter images: the peasants sweep the snow off the roofs, whip up the loaded donkeys to the village, in the foreground there is a worker with a spade offering his services while the background depicts the masterpiece of the Azerbaijani architecture of the 15th century – the “ Blue Mosque ” in Tabriz.