Saturday, December 10, 2011
The first
Around the middle of the nineteenth century the world's first oil well was drilled near Baku.
The name of AZERBAIJAN
The name for Azerbaijan derives from a word for fire. It is interesting to note that Azerbaijan has large deposits of oil and the ignition of surface oil may have led to the description of the country as the "land of fire".
Friday, December 9, 2011
officially the Republic of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (i/ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn/ az-ər-by-jahn; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası) is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe,[5] it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The exclave of Nakhchivan is bounded by Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, while having a short borderline with Turkey to the northwest.
The Caspian Sea (Azerbaijani: Xəzər dənizi)
The Caspian Sea (Azerbaijani: Xəzər dənizi, Russian: Каспийское море,Turkmen: Hazar deňizi) is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.
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