Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia 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 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, and has an 11 km (6.8 mi) long border with Turkey in the northwest.
Azerbaijanis or Azeris, also known as Azerbaijani Turks, are a Turkic people living mainly in the Iranian region of Azerbaijan and the sovereign Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most numerous ethnic group among the Turkic peoples after Turkish people and predominantly Shia Muslims. They comprise the largest ethnic group in the Republic of Azerbaijan and the second-largest ethnic group in neighboring Iran and Georgia. The world's largest number of ethnic Azerbaijanis live in Iran, followed by the Republic of Azerbaijan. They speak the Azerbaijani language, belonging to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages.
Cemâl Süreya was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish–Zaza descent.
The National Assembly, also transliterated as Milli Majlis, is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan. The unicameral National Assembly has 125 deputies: previously 100 members were elected for five-year terms in single-seat constituencies and 25 were members elected by proportional representation; as of the latest election, however, all 125 deputies are returned from single-member constituencies. Milli Majlis was the first secular republican parliament in the Muslim world.
Sevda Alekperzadeh is an Azerbaijani female singer.
The European Hockey Federation is a European sports federation for field hockey, based in Brussels. It is the umbrella organisation for all European national federations and organises the Euro Hockey League. Marijke Fleuren was elected as president on 22 August 2011.
Women in Azerbaijan nominally enjoy the same legal rights as men; however, societal discrimination remains a problem.
Sevda is a Turkish given name. Notable people with the name include:
The Azerbaijan women's national football team represents Azerbaijan in international women's football. They are currently 67th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Azerbaijan has never qualified for any international tournament. The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Tofiq Bahramov Stadium.
Wrestling World Cup is an international wrestling competition among teams representing member nations of the United World Wrestling (UWW) the sport's global governing body. The cups have been conducted by FILA every year since the 1973 tournament. The World Cup began as a dual-meet competition for the top teams on each continent, but now features the top teams in the rankings of the previous year's world championships.
The Azerbaijan women's national field hockey team represents Azerbaijan in international women's field hockey and is controlled by the Azerbaijan Field Hockey Federation, the governing body for field hockey in Azerbaijan.
"Emina" is a poem by a Bosnian-Serb poet Aleksa Šantić that became a popular sevdalinka song, covered by many prominent singers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of former Yugoslavia. It was first published in 1902 in the Serbian literary journal Kolo. The subject of the poem is Šantić's neighbor, a Bosnian Muslim girl named Emina Sefić. It is one of the most well-known sevdalinka songs of all time.
The following are the national records in Olympic weightlifting in Azerbaijan. Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts by the Azerbaijan Weightlifting Federation (AAAF).
Azerbaijan participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Skeletons" written by Isa Melikov and Sandra Bjurman. The song was performed by Diana Hajiyeva (Dihaj), who was internally selected by the Azerbaijani broadcaster İctimai Television (İTV) to represent the nation at the 2017 contest in Kiev, Ukraine. Dihaj's selection as the Azerbaijani Eurovision entrant was announced on 5 December 2016, while the song "Skeletons" was presented to the public on 11 March 2017.
The Azerbaijan men's national field hockey team represents Azerbaijan in international men's field hockey and is controlled by the Azerbaijan Field Hockey Federation, the governing body for field hockey in Azerbaijan.
Sevda Mikayilova is an Azerbaijani philologist and poet.
Azerbaijan is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Jafarova Sevda Shirin gizi is pediatrician, reanimatologist, and neonatologist. Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences, Regional Medical Coordinator of the United Nations (UN) on Azerbaijan, Member of the Commission of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Study of Childhood and Adolescent Development and Death, Medical Director of Reference Group Leyla Medical Center, Member of the Board of Directors.
Aysun Aliyeva is an Azerbaijani women's football midfielder currently playing in the Turkis First League for Fatih Vatan Spor with jersey number 14. She was a member of the Azerbaijan girls' U-17 and women's national U-19 teams before she was admitted to the women's national U-21 team. She is a member of the women's national team.
Shahla Humbatova has been an Azerbaijani human rights lawyer since 2013. After speaking out about prison conditions she found herself disbarred from being a lawyer. There were international protests and in 2020 she was recognised as an International Woman of Courage by the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
