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Azerbaijan

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The Azerbaijan is a country in the Caucasus. Its capital is Baku, its official language is Azerbaijani manat, and its currency. The country emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991.

In 1804, Czar Alexander conquered Persia to Ganja, which becomes Elizavetpol. The Treaty of Golestan in 1813 gave the Russian provinces of Persia, north of the Araks. The city of Baku is annexed and became the capital of the governorate under Turkmenchay Treaty of 1828 and the Treaty Peace concluded in Edirne.

In the late nineteenth th century, Russia's oil wealth of the country. Baku became the world's largest producer of oil. Azeri relatively structured movement emerges at the same time.

In 1918, Azerbaijan was proclaimed an independent republic and together with its neighboring countries Transcaucasian Federal Republic. Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan existed until 1920. Then the first democratic country with a Muslim majority in Asia, and the first predominantly Muslim country to give voting rights to women.

In 1920, the country is occupied by the Red Army and attached to the USSR before being incorporated in 1922 in the Transcaucasian Federation and the USSR in the form of the Republic Azerbaijan SSR.

Azerbaijan declared its independence after the collapse of the communist bloc August 30, 1991.

Right out of the USSR, a war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. This war was won by Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh became de facto independent.

Abulfaz Eltchibeï, the leader of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PFA), was elected president by popular vote with 55% of the vote in June 1992. Following a brief civil war, he was deposed in June 1993 and temporarily replaced by former Soviet leader Heydar Aliyev, leader of the Communist Party. The removal of Eltchibeï is "accepted" by referendum in October 1993 Aliyev was elected president with 98.8% of the vote.

For philatelic history, we note three major periods:

The first independence (1918-1920)
I've yet to letters for this period, only a few stamps: