Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with a coast on the Caspian Sea. It has frontiers with Russia in the north, Georgia in the northwest, Armenia in the west and southeast and southwest, and Iran in the south. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan) borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest. The country’s formal name is the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azər ...

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Main article: Culture of Azerbaijan The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republic’s population, as well as about a third of the population of Iran. Its closest relatives are Turkish and Turkmen. As a result of the language policy of the Soviet Union, Russian is also commonly spoken as a second language among the urbane. Music of Azerbaijan Islam in Azerbaijan< ...

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There are several hypotheses regarding the origins of the name "Azerbaijan." The most common theory is that it is derived from "Atropatan." Atropat was the satrap at the time of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty, and gained independence after Alexander the Great destroyed the Achaemenids. The region was known as Media Atropatia or Atropatene at the time. There are also alternative opinions that the term is a slight Turkification of Azarbaijan, in turn an Arabicized version of the original Persian name Âzarâbâda ...

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Astara is a port town in Astara (rayon) in Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAstara (rayon)

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Azerbaijan Airlines (Azeri: Azərbaycan Hava Yollary) is an airline based in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is the state-owned national airline operating scheduled passenger and cargo services from Baku to the CIS, Europe, China and the Middle East. Its main base is Heydar Aliyev International Airport (BAK). The airline was established and started operations on 7 April 1992. It has a 100% holding in subsidiary airline AZAL Avia Cargo and has 4280 employees. Azerbaijan Airlines - Code Data. IATA Code: J2< ...

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Azerbaijan is divided into: 59 rayons (rayonlar; rayon - singular), 11 cities* (saharlar; sahar - singular), 1 autonomous republic** (muxtar respublika), which itself contains 6 rayons 1 city All listed are rayons unless otherwise noted. Listed alphabetically by Azerbaijani name, which is in parentheses when different from the transliterated name. This list is for the main part of Azerbaijan; the rayons of ...

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Azerbaijan This article is part of the series: Politics of Azerbaijan President: Ilham Aliyev Prime Minister: Artur Rasizade Political parties Elections See also: Politics of Nagorno Karabakh edit The 2005 Azerbaijan parliamentary election was held on November 6. It pitted candidates of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party against opposition led by the Azadlıq (Freedom) bloc of the Azerbaijan Popu ...

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The culture of Azerbaijan has developed as a result of many influences, including its Turkic, Islamic, and Central Asian heritage as well as Russian influences due to its former status as a Soviet republic. Today, Western influences, including globalized consumer culture, are strong. Culture of Azerbaijan - Religion. Main article: Religion in Azerbaijan Around 96 percent of Azerbaijan's population is nominally Muslim. The rest of the population adheres to other faiths or no specific fa ...

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Yevlakh (Yevlax) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAzerbaijan, rayon

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Agstafa (Ağstafa) is a rayon in northwestern Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAzerbaijan

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Agsu (Ağsu) is a rayon in central Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAzerbaijan

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Agdam (Ağdam) is a rayon in southwestern Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAzerbaijan

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Agdash (Ağdaş) is a rayon in central Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAzerbaijan

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Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy/andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that is effectively incorporated in delivering education to students who are not physically "on site" to receive their education. Instead, teachers and students may communicate asynchronously (at times of their own choosing) by exchanging printed or electronic media, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time (synchronously). Distance education courses that require a physical on-site presence for any reason including the taking of examinations i ...

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Qabala (Qəbələ) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Other related archivesAzerbaijan, Kabbalah, rayon

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