History o Azerbaijan

The **history o Azerbaijan**, the lairgest ceety o Azerbaijan.

## History o the name Azerbaijan

The name o Azerbaijan derives frae *[[Atropates]]*, a Persian satrap unner the Achaemenid Empire, that wis later reinstatit as the satrap o Media unner Alexander the Great. The oreeginal etymology o this name is thocht tae hae its roots in the auncient Iranian releegion o Zoroastrianism. In the Avesta, Frawardin Yasht ("Hymn tae the Guardian Angels"), thare is a mention o *âterepâtahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide*, which literally translates frae Avestan as *"we worship the [[Fravashi]] o the holy Atare-pata"*.

Atropates ruled ower the region o Atropatene (present-day Iranian Azerbaijan). The name "Atropates" itself is the Greek transliteration o an Auld-Iranian, probably Median, compoondit name wi the meanin "Protectit bi the (Holy) Fire". The Greek name is mentioned bi Diodorus Siculus an Strabo, an it is continued as *ādurbādagān* in the Middle Persian geographical text Shahrestānihā i Erānshahr. The wird is translatable as baith "the treasury" an "the treasurer" o fire in Modren Persian.

## [[Caucasian Albanie]]

Albania uisually referred tae as *Caucasian Albania* for disambiguation wi the modren state o Albanie; the native name for the kintra is unkent) is a name for the historical region o the eastren Caucasus, that existit on the territory o present-day republic o Azerbaijan (whaur baith o its caipitals wur locatit) an pairtially soothren Dagestan.

## [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]]

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic wis the first successfu attempt tae establish a democratic an secular republic in the Muslim warld.

## Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Established on 28 Aprile 1920 as the Azerbaijan SSR, frae 12 Mairch 1922 tae 5 Dizember 1936, it wis pairt o the Transcaucasian SFSR thegither wi the Armenie SSR an the Georgie SSR. In Dizember 1922, the Transcaucasie SFSR became pairt o the newly establisht Soviet Union. The Constitution o Azerbaijan SSR wis appruivit bi the 9t Extraordinar Aw-Azerbaijani Congress o Soviets on 14 Mairch 1937. On 19 November 1990, Azerbaijan SSR wis renamit the "Republic o Azerbaijan," remainin in the USSR for anither year afore its unthirldom in 1991.

## [[Azerbaijan Republic]]

### Diplomatic relations
Azerbaijan haes diplomatic relations wi 158 kinrtas sae far an haulds membership in 38 internaitional organisations.

Azerbaijan is ane o the foondin members o GUAM an the Organisation for the Prohibition o Chemical Weapons, an jynt the Commonwealth o Independent States in September 1993.

On 9 Mey 2006 Azerbaijan wis electit tae membership in the newly established Human Richts Council bi the Unitit Naitions General Assembly. The term o office began on 19 Juin 2006. A Special Envoy o the European Commission is present in the kintra, which is an' a' a member o the Unitit Naitions, the OSCE, the Council o Europe, an the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. The kintra an aa haulds observer status in the Non-Aligned Movement an Warld Tred Organisation an is a correspondent at the Internaitional Telecommunication Union.

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## Airticle
*Caucasian Albanie
*Qajar dynasty
*Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

## References

## Ither wabsteids

*Timeline starting in 1828 frae BBC News
*A Country Study: Azerbaijan Mairch 1994 report frae the U.S. Library of Congress
*History of Azerbaijan: Primary Documents
*List of rulers frae *Rulers.org*
*Gasimov, Zaur:"A Short Sketch of One Century of Azerbaijani Historical Writing" in the ''Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 8''