Original sentence: The name Azerbaijan was chosen as the name for what later became the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1918 by the Musavats for political reasons, hoping to annex north western Iran
Edited sentence: Abbott, the British Consul General to Persia, already referred to the territory of present-day Republic of Azerbaijan as Russian Azerbaijan, "bounded on the north and north-east by the mountains of Caucasus, extending to the vicinity of Baku on the Caspian".Diakonoff, the name of Azerbaijan was chosen for the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1918 by the Musavatists for political reasons, hoping to annex north western Iran.In 1863, Keith E.Yet according to Igor M