History
Azerbaijan is the modern name of a historical and geographic region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, and formerly known as Azerbaygan by various Turkic Empires, or by Albania by Greeks. It is bounded by the Khazar (Caspian) Sea to the east, Russia's Daghestan region to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the southwest, and Sout Azerbaijan -Iran to the south. Azerbaijan is a home to diverse ethnicities, majority of which are Azerbaijan Turkish, an ethnic group which numbers close to 8 million in the independent Republic of Azerbaijan.
The heritage, culture, and civilization of this region today known as the country of Azerbaijan has both ancient and modern roots. The people of the modern country of Azerbaijan are believed to be inheritors of various ancient civilizations and peoples, including the indigenous Caucasian Albanians, Turkic tribes such as Scythians and Alans, and the later arrival of Oghuz Turks, among others (note that several modern peoples of the Caucasus can trace their ancestries to more than one of these same ancient peoples).
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