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1 What type of government does Azerbaijan have?

2 Who of the following is/was the leader of Azerbaijan?

3 Which is the largest city in Azerbaijan?

4 [20] The Medes forged a vast empire between 900–700 BC, which was integrated into the ________ Empire around 550 BC.

5 ________, Meykhana and Ashik art are one of the many musical traditions of Azerbaijan.

6 [64] It holds observer status in the Non-Aligned Movement and World Trade Organization and is a correspondent at the ________.

7 How many square miles is Azerbaijan in area?

8 The local dynasty of Shirvanshahs became a vassal state of Timur's Empire and assisted him in his war with the ruler of the ________ Tokhtamysh.

9 Azerbaijan is in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia, straddling Western Asia and ________.

10 What is the calling code of Azerbaijan?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?
  • the Saviour's Lutheran Church in Baku, Azerbaijan (pictured) survived Joseph Stalin's rule by promising to pray for him?
  • the Battle of Kelbajar was the first time Armenian military forces crossed and captured a region of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
  • the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, who sang with great success at La Scala and the Paris Olympia, was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
  • the historical Bibi-Heybat Mosque near Baku, Azerbaijan, (pictured), destroyed in 1934 as a result of the Soviet anti-religious campaign, was reopened in 1997 at the same location after the country gained independence?
  • the modern states of Armenia and Azerbaijan occupy those territories that were conquered by Ivan Paskevich from Persia during the Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828?
  • while time, war, and hazardous emissions continually wrecked the tomb of Nizami, a 12th-century epic poet, the tomb was finally rebuilt in solid granite in 1991 in Ganja, Azerbaijan?
  • the works of Azerbaijan-born artist Semyon Bilmes have been featured in Reader's Digest, The New York Times and in advertisements for AT&T and Citibank?
  • the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?
  • the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana, with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma, the Latin word for Rome?
  • the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov, who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?
  • tens of thousands of Armenian Khachkars have allegedly been destroyed in a systematic manner by the government of Azerbaijan?
  • Qabala treasures, monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan, contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors?
  • Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
  • Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe?
  • Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?
  • after being imprisoned for allegedly leading Islamic militants in Azerbaijan, Ahmad Salama Mabruk began leading a new militant group within prison?
  • as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union?
  • in the early 1990s, Surət Hüseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?
  • during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?
  • during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus, the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus?
  • Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
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