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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 ...
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]
There are 61 reservoirs (each of them has capacity of 1 mln m 3) available in Azerbaijan. The total volume of water reservoirs is 21.5 km 3. Water reservoirs are built on the riverbed as well as beyond it (in a distance from river). Most reservoirs are regulated according to seasons and used for irrigation purposes.
The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also known as the Four-Day War, [a] April War, [24][25][26][b] or April clashes, [c] began along the former Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on 1 April 2016 with the Artsakh Defence Army, backed by the Armenian Armed Forces, on one side and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the other.
It is a landlocked endorheic body of water and lies between Asia and Europe. It has a maximum depth of about 1,025 meters (3,363 feet). It is called a sea because when the Romans discovered it, they tasted the water and found it to be salty. It has a salinity of approximately 1.2 percent, about a third the salinity of seawater.
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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.
An enlargeable topographic map of Azerbaijan.. The geology of Azerbaijan forms a constituent geological part of the Alpine fold belt.Sedimentary deposits embracing the southwestern parts of the Major and Minor Caucasus, including the intermountain Kur River trough, as well as the Mid- and South Caspian basins consist of diversity fold systems.