It borders Dagestan, Russia, in the north, Georgia (at the Mazim River) to the west, and the Girdiman Valley to the east and south.
Lankaran Economic Region
Lankaran economic region or Lankaran is one of the ten economic regions of Azerbaijan.
Lankaran-Astara economic region includes 6 administrative districts – Astara, Jalilabad, Lerik, Lankaran, Masally and Yardimli. The economic region has 8 cities, 6 districts 13 settlements and 642 villages.
Guba-Khachmaz economic region
The Guba-Khachmaz economic region is one of ten regions of Azerbaijan. It is to the north of the Absheron Peninsula, between the shores of the Caspian Sea and the Greater Caucasus mountains.
Administrative districts of the economic region include Shabran, Khachmaz, Guba, Gusar, and Siyazan.
Aran economic region
Aran economic region is one of ten regions in Azerbaijan.
Administrative divisions of the Aran economic region are:
Yukhari-Karabakh economic region
Yukhari-Karabakh economic region is one of 10 regions in Azerbaijan.
Its administrative divisions are:
Kalbajar-Lachin
Kalbajar-Lachin is by law one of the economic regions of Azerbaijan. But in fact all the territory lies in the territory of occupied Nagorno Karabakh.
Districts in the region are:
Mountainous Shirvan economic region
The Mountainous Shirvan Economic Region is one of ten economic regions in Azerbaijan. The region includes the Agsu, Ismaili, Gobustan, and the Shemakha regional administrative districts.
Stevo Pendarovski
Stevo Pendarovski (; born 3 April 1963) is a Macedonian politician. He is serving as the President of North Macedonia since 12 May 2019.
President of North Macedonia
The president of the Republic of North Macedonia (; is the head of state of North Macedonia. The presidency of the modern North Macedonia state began after the Macedonian declaration of independence on 8 September 1991.
Its first president was Kiro Gligorov, the oldest president in the world until his resignation in 1999.
North Macedonia's presidency is largely a ceremonial post and the prime minister of North Macedonia is the country's main political figure.
The president must be a citizen of North Macedonia, be over 40 years of age and have lived in North Macedonia for at least ten of the last fifteen years.
Kiro Gligorov
Kiro Gligorov (, ; May 3, 1917 – January 1, 2012) was the first President of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999.
Stojan Andov
Stojan Andov (; born 30 November 1935) is a Macedonian politician. He is a founding member of the Liberal Party of Macedonia. He was a president of Parliament from 1993 to 1997. From October to November 1995, he was Acting President of North Macedonia.
Boris Trajkovski
Boris Trajkovski ( ; 25 June 1956 – 26 February 2004) was a Macedonian politician who was the president and Supreme Commander of the Republic of Macedonia from 1999 to 2004. He died in a plane crash.
Ljupčo Jordanovski
Ljupčo Jordanovski (, ; 13 February 1953 – 7 October 2010) was a Macedonian seismologist and politician. He was a member of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia party. He took office as Speaker of the Assembly on 18 November 2003. When President Boris Trajkovski was killed in a plane crash on 26 February 2004, Jordanovski was sworn in as Acting President.
Branko Crvenkovski
Branko Crvenkovski ( ; born 12 October 1962) is a Macedonian politician. He was Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2004, and as President of Macedonia from 2004 to 2009. He decided not to run for re-election in 2009. Crvenkovski was also leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia.
Gjorge Ivanov
Gjorge Ivanov (, ; born 2 May 1960) is a Macedonian politician. He was President of North Macedonia from 2009 to 2019.
In March 2016 Ivanov stated that the European Union had failed the Republic of Macedonia and other Balkan countries in the European migrant crisis.
Oliver Spasovski
Oliver Spasovski (; born 21 October 1976) is a Macedonian politician. He was the Prime Minister of North Macedonia.
Until 3 January 2020, Spasovski was Minister of Internal Affairs.
He is general secretary of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM).
Thelma Todd
Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress and businesswoman. She was known as "The Ice Cream Blonde", also "Hot Toddy". Todd was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Todd was in 120 feature movies and shorts between 1926 and 1935. She is best remembered for her comedic roles in movies such as Marx Brothers' "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers". She co-starred with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in "Speak Easily". She also had roles in many Wheeler and Woolsey and Laurel and Hardy movies.
Todd was found dead on December 16, 1935 in her car at her Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles garage. She was 29 years old. Her death was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, however it is unknown if she was murdered or if it was a suicide.
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide poisoning happens from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at large levels.
Symptoms are often described as "flu-like" and commonly include headache, dizziness, weakness, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. Large exposures can result in loss of consciousness, arrhythmias, seizures, or death.
Carbon monoxide poisoning can be accidental, like if the oven's gas is left on by accident or a gas leak. However, it can often be used as a suicide method such as keeping the car on while in a closed garage.
Dizziness
Dizziness is a disability in spatial perception and stability. The term "dizziness" is not specific: it can mean vertigo, presyncope, disequilibrium, or a non-specific feeling such as being drunk or funny.
Dizziness is a common medical complaint, affecting 20-30% of persons.
Dizziness is broken down into 4 main subtypes: vertigo (~25-50%), disequilibrium (less than ~15%), presyncope (less than ~15%) and nonspecific dizziness (~10%).
John L. Pickitt
John L. Pickitt (July 30, 1933 – March 14, 2020) was an American lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. He was director of the Defense Nuclear Agency from 1985 to 1987. He attended the United States Military Academy. He was born in Teague, Texas.
Pickitt died on March 14, 2020 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of 86.
Teague, Texas
Teague is a city in Freestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,560 at the 2010 census.
Henri Richelet
Henri Richelet (16 June 1944–18 March 2020), was a French painter. Inspired by the tradition of Caravaggio, or of Georges de La Tour in his "Saint Jérôme pénitent". He used dark backgrounds to make livid and pallid flesh of tense, hunched up bodies stand out.
During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, he died of COVID-19 on 18 March 2020 in Paris, aged 75.
Harry Aarts
Henricus Johannes Bernardus "Harry" Aarts (9 March 1930 – 25 March 2020) was a Dutch politician. He was in the House of Representatives for the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal from 23 January 1973 until 1 October 1993. Aarts was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Aarts died of COVID-19 on 25 March 2020 in Tilburg, Netherlands, aged 90.
Joseph Lowery
Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He later became the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after Martin Luther King Jr.. He was president from 1977 to 1997. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2009, President Barack Obama honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Lowery died on March 27, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 98.
MaryAnn Black
MaryAnn Eaddy Black (October 3, 1943 – March 25, 2020) was an American clinical social worker and politician. She was a Democrat. She served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2017 until her death in 2020. She was born in Manhattan, New York City.