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The Kur and Aras are the longest rivers of Azerbaijan and their drainage basin covers most of the country. Rivers form the principal part of the water systems of Azerbaijan. There are 8,359 rivers of various lengths within Azerbaijan. Of them, 8,188 rivers are less than 25 kilometres (16 mi) long. Only 24 rivers are over 100 kilometres (62 mi ...
The Azerbaijan Portal. Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the ...
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Azerbaijan ratified the convention on 16 December 1993. [3] Azerbaijan has five sites on the list. The first site added to the list was the Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, in 2000. Due to the damage sustained in the 2000 Baku earthquake, the site was listed as endangered from 2003 to 2009. [4]
Expert on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Thomas de Waal wrote that Azerbaijanis in Armenia became the "collateral victims" of the Armenian genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire years prior; also adding that despite Azerbaijanis being represented by three delegates in an eighty-seat Armenian parliament, they were universally targeted as "Turkish fifth columnists". [10]
The largest lake of the Republic is Sarısu lake, located in the Kur-Araz lowland (water area 65.7 km 2, volume of water is 59.1 million m 3). The highest mountainous lake in the Republic is Tufangöl (area 0.01 km 2 , volume 0.11 million m 3 ) located in the basin of Damiraparanchay and at a height of 3277 m.
President Ilham Aliyev. Minister of Defense. Zakir Hasanov. Commander of Azerbaijani Naval Forces. Vice-Admiral Subhan Bekirov. Insignia. Naval ensign. Coast Guard S-201, the Caspian Sea. The Azerbaijan Navy (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Hərbi Dəniz Qüvvələri) is the naval component of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces operating in the Caspian Sea.
Victory. 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom perished. Up to 40,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht. Soviet–Afghan War. (1979–1989) Soviet Union. Soviet Azerbaijan. Afghan Mujahideen. Defeat.