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===History=== | ===History=== | ||
The sovereign state of Azerbaijan is a unitary semi-presidential republic. It is one of six independent Turkic states and an active member of the Turkic Council and the TÜRKSOY community. Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 158 countries and holds membership in 38 international organizations. | The sovereign state of Azerbaijan is a unitary semi-presidential republic. It is one of six independent Turkic states and an active member of the Turkic Council and the TÜRKSOY community. Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 158 countries and holds membership in 38 international organizations. | ||
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan] | ||
===Timeline=== | ===Timeline=== | ||
1501 | 1501 – The Safavid dynasty of Iran subdued the Shirvanshahs, and gained its possessions. In the course of the next century, the Safavids converted the formerly Sunni population to Shia Islam<br> | ||
1578 – 1590 Ottoman-Safavid War<br> | |||
1588 | 1588 – 1804 Azerbaijan was under Iran rule<br> | ||
1804 – 1813 Russians started the Russo-Persian War. The Russians ended the war with a victory. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Gulistan Treaty of Gulistan]-- most of what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan was ceded to the Russian Empire<br> | |||
1826 – 1828 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826–1828) Russo-Perisan War] <br> | |||
1828 – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay Treaty of Turkmenchay] -- southern parts of the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan ceded to the Russian Empire <br> | |||
1918 – 1920 Azerbaijanis did not surrender their brief independence easily and as many as 20,000 Azerbaijani soldiers died<br> | |||
12 March 1922 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR combined to become the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcaucasian_Socialist_Federative_Soviet_Republic Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (TSFSF)] <br> | |||
5 December 1936 - Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (TSFSF) dissolved. Azerbaijan SSR reestablished. <br> | |||
1994 – Armenians controlled up to 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory and during the war an estimated 30,000 people have been killed and more than a million people were displaced<br> | |||
===Links=== | ===Links=== | ||
*[http://www.infoplease.com/country/azerbaijan.html Historical records] | *[http://www.infoplease.com/country/azerbaijan.html Historical records] | ||
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