Tag: Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is located south of the border between Europe and the Middle East, between the Caspian Sea in the east and the Caucasus in the west. The land has no access to a sea. The former “Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic” became an independent state in 1991. The southern part of the historical national territory is […]

Attractions Baku The Azerbaijani capital of Baku is of Islamic origin and overlooks the Caspian Sea. The old town of Itscheri Scheher, surrounded by a city wall, with its tea houses and busy narrow streets, has a typical oriental flair. The Maiden’s Tower ( Kyz-Kalasy, 12th century) offers a magnificent view of the bay. Just […]

ECONOMY The political-military situation, which arose in the last decade of the twentieth century, had catastrophic consequences on the country’s economy as a whole, which avoided collapse only by virtue of oil production. The dissolution of the USSR and the contextual outbreak of tensions between the states of the Caucasian area have in fact changed […]