History of Azerbaijan

Historical territory of Azerbaijan covers huge areas including in itself Darband city and Great Caucasus range in the North, Easteran Anatolia, Eastern Georgia in the West, Sultaniyye - Hamadan - Zanjan in the South and Caspian Sea in the East. These territories were inhabitated by different tribes during history and formatted Azerbaijani nation. Nowadays, more than 50 million Azerbaijanis live in the borders of mentioned above territories and outside of homeland. Azerbaijanis made extraordinary commitments the world human advancement living in the region of Azerbaijan for a large number of years. Wars, upheavals, military clashes, social-political procedures on the planet destructed Azerbaijan, a portion of the Azerbaijanis asked to leave their properties, expelled, left their nation with the reason to discover a work, and to get training and settled in various nations. Today Azerbaijanis live in each side of the world. The history of Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis sta...

Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan is the city which units East and West cultures in itself. If you walk in city you can observe mix of Islamic world and modern European culture. Ancient  modern and postmodern buildings are built in Baku during its existence. One of these buildings is the complex of Flame Towers. The complex with three buildings is the biggest in country. Construction of Flame Towers  started in 2007 and continued till 2012. The buildings consist of apartments, office blocks and a hotel. The facades of the three Flame Towers functuion as large display screen with more than ten thousand LED luminaires.

Nizami Ganjavi was great Azerbaijani poet, born in Ganja city. He wrote five poems which together they are called "Khamsa", means five from arabic language. One of leader-creaters of our Republic Mahammad Emin Rasulzade wrote a book to the honor of Nizami Ganjavi. Book  is called "Azərbaycan şairi Nizami", in English means "Azerbaijani poet Nizami". The book was written for 800 years anniversary of the great poet. Book was published in 1951, in Ankara city of Turkey Republic, where M. E. Rasulzade migrated after the occupation of Azerbaijan Republic by bolshevik Russia in 1920. You can see photo of that book with the autograph of great leader M. E. Rasulzade.  The book is being exhibited in The National Museum of History of Azerbaijan.