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Azerbaijan, officially the Republic
of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası), is the
largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus region of
Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia,
it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north,
Georgia to the west and northwest, Armenia to the southwest, and Iran to
the south. The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan is bordered by Armenia
to the north and east, Iran to the south and Turkey to the west and
southwest. Nagorno-Karabakh, along with 7 other districts in
Azerbaijan's southwest, have been occupied by Armenia since the end of
the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994.
Azerbaijan folk consists of Azerbaijanis, the representative part of
society, as well as of nations and ethnic groups, compactly living in
various areas of the country. There are radio broadcasts in Kurdish,
Lezgin, Talysh, Georgian, Russian and Armenian languages, which are
financed from the state budget. The local radio station in Balakan
organizes broadcasts in the Avar language and in Khachmaz also in Tat.
In Baku several newspapers are published in Russian, Kurdish (Dengi
Kurd), Lezgin (Samur) and Talysh languages.Jewish society "Sokhnut"
publishes the newspaper Aziz. |
