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Ahmad Javad

In 1920, he worked as the school headmaster and the teacher of Russian and Azeri languages in the village Khulug of Gusar rayon, but from 1920 to 1922 he was Quba rayon's public education branch's manager.

Armenian–Azerbaijani War

Faced with such a difficult situation, the government officially surrendered to the Soviets, but many generals and local Azeri militias kept resisting the advance of Soviet forces and it took a while for the Soviets to stabilize the newly proclaimed Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, headed by the leading Azeri Bolshevik Nariman Narimanov.

Aysel Manafova

Aysel Manafova is an Azeri beauty queen and current Miss Azerbaijan.

Azat, Armenia

The village was the birthplace of the celebrated Azeri folklore poet Ashig Alasgar (Ashug Alesker) (1821-1926).

Azerbaijani hip hop

According to Vahid Mustafayev, president of the Azerbaijan News Service, "Yesterday is Past" was the first Azeri rap song, created in 1983 by Chingiz Mustafayev, who would later become Azerbaijan's national hero for unrelated reasons.

Azerbaijani peacekeeping forces

The Azeri platoon commanded by First Lieutenant Shamil Mammadov performed patrolling duties in the populated district of southern Kabul.

Babi Badalov

Badalov was born in Lerik, a small town near the Iranian border in the Talysh region of Azerbaijan, to an Azeri father and a Talysh mother.

Behrangi

Samad Behrangi (1939-1967), Azeri-Iranian teacher, writer, social critic, folklorist and translator

Central Council of Trade Unions

Significantly, a major share of the workers and employees organized by the Central Council were Azeris or Armenians.

Dilara Aliyeva

She later worked at various positions in the Nizami Institute studying the literary heritage of the Medieval poet Nizami and historical interractions and comparison between Azeri and Georgian literatures.

Dmitry Staroselsky

He established Bakinskiye Izvestiya ("Baku News") in 1872 and helped Hasan bey Zardabi to publish Akinchi ("The Ploughman"), the first Azeri-language newspaper, in 1875.

Embassy of Azerbaijan, London

In 2011 a protest was held outside the embassy by those opposed to the jailing the Azeri journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.

Empress Alexandra Russian Muslim Boarding School for Girls

It was built in 1901 sponsored by the Azeri oil baron and philanthropist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Farhad Veliyev

Farhad Veliyev (Azeri Fərhad Vəliyev; born 1 November 1980) is an Azerbaijani international football goalkeeper who plays for FK Qarabağ in the AFFA Supreme League.

Friedrich von Bodenstedt

Though he claimed that the volume was his own poetry published under oriental disguise to gain popularity, it has been argued that the volume was a successful translation of the Persian and Azeri poems of an Azeri poet, and a known acquaintance of his, Mirza Shafi Vazeh.

Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party

After the 1917 October Revolution, the party formed an anti-Soviet bloc along with the Georgian Mensheviks, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ("Dashnaks") and the Azeri Musavat Party.

Germi County

The most historical place in this county is Barzand Castle that was the castle of Afshin who battled with Babak Khorramdin in earlier century of Islamic history.People of this county are Muslim and speak in Azeri.

Gozinesh

economic, social and cultural rights by, inter alia, Arab, Azeri, Baloch and Kurdish communities and some communities of non-citizens, in particular with regard to

International Bank of Azerbaijan

The bank has also financed Akkord Industry Construction Investment Corporation, an Azeri construction company.

Jabbar Garyaghdioglu

Between 1906 and 1912 he visited Kiev, Moscow and Warsaw together with other Azeri khanandas, where a vinyl recording of his performance was made.

Jahan Talyshinskaya

Following his approval, she left Tashkent for Tbilisi, Georgia to perform at the Tbilisi Azeri Drama Theatre, and later (at the insistence of director Shamsi Badalbeyli) at the Azerbaijan Musical Comedy Theatre, where she proved to be an outstanding comedy actress.

Javanshir Qizilbash

Jawanshir Qizilbash is an Azeri tribe and a part of Afshar, adherent of Twelver Shī'ism.

Khazar University Library Information Center

The university's Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is its Bibliographic database which users may use to search for materials such as books, periodicals, video recordings, and CD-ROMs in English, Azeri, Russian and other languages.

Latif Karimov

In 1937, he was hired to design the Azeri hall of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition together with Rustam Mustafayev.

Maraga Massacre

The suffering of your people should somehow be recognized and they will therefore receive justice and the right to live in peace and freedom in their land… It is impossible for the Armenians who live in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) ever again to accept Azeri sovereignty.

Niyazi

Niyazi conducted many of the major symphony orchestras in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, New York, Paris, Istanbul, London, Tehran, Beijing and Ulan-Bator and played an important role in making the Azeri classical music known to the world.

Orient, the Festival of Eastern Music

The festival has featured Oriental musicians such as Indian flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, sitarists Pandit Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar, the Japanese giant drum ensemble "Kodô", the Tuvinian guttural singers "Huun-Huur-Tu", Tibetan Buddhists monks of Gyuto and Gyume monasteries, the Turkish percussionist Burhan Öçal, the Armenian dudukist Jivan Gasparyan, and the Azeri muqam singer Alim Qasimov.

Public holidays in Azerbaijan

Holidays in Azerbaijan were regulated on the Constitution of Azerbaijan SSR for the first time on 19 May, 1921 by the Azeri leader Nariman Narimanov.

Remziye Hisar

During a dinner in Baku, given by a wealthy Azeri, Remziye met Reşit Süreyya (later surnamed Gürsey), a medicine doctor from Turkey.

SAHAR TV

Sahar TV is the name of two Iranian TV channels that are part of Sahar Universal Network (SUN) which is the foreign broadcasting branch of Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) that is responsible for broadcasting the programs in different languages including English, French, Arabic, Urdu, Azeri, Kurdish and many other ones.

Saingilo

Nowadays there are Georgians—Ingilos (ინგილოები in Georgian, Ingiloylar in Azeri)—living in this region of Azerbaijan (districts of Qax, Balakan and Zaqatala).

Sakina Akhundzadeh

In 1911, Huseyn Arablinski staged Akhundzadeh's remake of Namık Kemal's play Zavallı çocuk (Bakhtsiz ushag in Azeri, "The Unfortunate Kid"), which soon began being performed in amateur theatres outside the Caucasus.

It had opened only because the Azeri oil magnate Zeynalabdin Taghiyev had funded it, and it is said that the school was named after he had written a letter to Czarina Alexandra.

Shovkat Mammadova

In 1911, she left for Milan, Italy to pursue a musical degree at the Milan Conservatory with the financial help of an Azeri multimillionaire, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev and his wife Sona.

Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On 1 October SVT revealed their entry for Minsk: 13 year old Josefine Ridell was selected to represent Sweden with the song "Allt jag vill ha" (Everything I want), written by Josefine, four-time Eurovision songwriter Thomas G:son, 2009 Azeri contestant Arash, Robert Uhlmann and Johan Bejerholm.

Taza Pir Mosque

The idea for the mosque as well as its financing was provided by an Azeri philanthropist, a female, Nabat Khanum Ashurbeyov (Ashurbeyli)

Thomas Goltz

Goltz speaks German, Turkish, Arabic, Azeri and Russian, and now spends about half the year in the field and half in Montana, where he lives and teaches part-time at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.


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