Azerbaijan

Ҹумҳурии Озарбойҹон
Republic of Azerbaijan

Conventional short name:
Local:	Озарбойҹон
English:	Azerbaijan
National motto: THE MOTTO!
Languages:
Official:	Azari dialect of Persian
Others:	Other Persian dialects (Tati & Talysh subdialects of Azari, Farsi), Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Avar, Georgian, German, Kurdish, Lezgian, Turkish (Azeri dialect aka Tatar), Udi, Yiddish
Cities:
Capital:	Tabriz/Табрез/تبریز
Other:	Badu Kube/Баду Кубе (Baku/Бакы)), Helenendorf/Xân-Hâ (Ҳан-Ха)), Ganja/Yelizavétpol (Ганҹа/Елизаве́тполь), Kuba (Куба/קאובּא), Lenkoran (Лонкоран), Shamakhi (Шамакы)
President:	Abbas Roşdiyye al-Tabrizi
Prime Minister:	Ismail Garabaghi
Area:	209,260km2
Population:	9,911,646 Azerbaijanis
Independence:	from Russia
Declared:	1991
Recognized:	1991
Independence:	from RULING NATION
Date:	DATE
Currency:
Organizations:	Silk Road League, MEA

Etymology

The name 'Azerbaijan' is the slight Turkification of 'Azarbaijan' which is an Arabicized version of the original Persian name 'Azarpayagan' because the /p/ and /g/ are not native Arab sounds (largely). 'Azarpaygan' is made up of azar+payag+an (azar=fire; payag=base; an=suffix of location). It is also claimed that the name comes from Atropates ("fire protector" in Old Persian/Middle Persian) who was the provincial satrap at the time of Alexander the Great. The region was known as "Media Atropatene" at the time.

Government

Azerbaijan is a parliamentary democracy with a presidential system. Although its majles (parliament) is based on post-SNORist Russia's Duma, it is a unitary, not a federal state with little devolution for its various subdivisions.

History

Fall of the SNOR and Independence Once More

Armeno-Azeri War (1994-2014)

Navy ensign

Air Force roundel

Borders

North: Russia.
West: Georgia, Armenia.
South: Persia.
East: Caspian Sea.