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16 DOING BUSINESS IN AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijan is one of the world’s oldest cradles of civilization. Human cultural activities in Azerbaijan were discovered in Gobustan (about 70 km from the capital city Baku) providing indisputable proof that the Azerbaijani culture goes back to approximately the 12th millennium B.C. History One of the countries of the South Caucasus, Azerbaijan was reintroduced on the political map of the world after the collapse of the Soviet block. Independence was regained only in 1991 at the price of thousands of lives of Azerbaijanis lost in the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict and the Soviet attack against Azerbaijani national movement in Baku in January 1990. Yet despite a short period of independence in the new era, Azerbaijan has an enduring and rich history of statehood and culture. Today’s Republic of Azerbaijan is the successor of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) declared on 28th May 1918 by the first Azerbaijani parliament—National Assembly (Milli Majlis). Though short lived (was occupied by Bolshevik Russia in 1920), ADR was the very first democratic government in the whole Islamic world. Such measures as electoral rights for women, representation of ethnic minorities in Parliament, and other progressive initiatives were put in place. These initiatives were ahead of their time, not only in the Middle East and Eurasia, but in the old democracies of Europe as well. The location of Azerbaijan as the most convenient route for migration from Asia to Europe, and from Eurasia to Middle East, from ancient times until recently forms the country’s ethnic mix of today. It is a mix of Turkic, Caucasian, European and other cultural influences. According to conventional historical tradition, the word “Azerbaijan” descends from the personal name or official title of the local ruler Atropat, IV century B.C., a contemporary of Alexander the Great. Other historians refer to Turkic and Sanskrit languages to trace down the origins of the name of the country.
Anyhow, the country bore the name “Atropatan” and later “Aderbagan” for many centuries to come. The name was used to describe territories that include the present Republic of Azerbaijan and the province of the same name within the Islamic Republic of Iran. The first recorded states on the territory that is now known as Azerbaijan date back to 9th Century B.C. A few states such as Manna, Maday and Albania with their own unique traditions succeeded one another in the period to follow. In the 4th century A.C. Christianity spread to the northern part of the country while the South remained largely Zoroastrian. In the 8th Century the Arabic conquest of Azerbaijan commenced. The Khalifat had long competed with the Turkic Khazar Kaganat (Judaism was the official religious tradition there) for domination over the north. Eventually Arabs prevailed and Azerbaijan remained under Islamic rule for circa three hundred years with the short period of twenty years when a large scale Hurammi freedom movement led by popular leader Babek overthrew the Arabs in Azerbaijan and parts of Iran. From the period of Arabian conquest onwards, Azerbaijan became an integral part of the Islamic cultural tradition. Nizami, Nasimi, Tusi and other Azerbaijani poets and scholars now regarded the patriarchs of this civilization, contributed extensively to the Islamic Renaissance of the 9th to the 13th century. The Middle Ages was a period of several large regional empires, predominantly Turkic. Some of the mightiest dynasties were of Azerbaijani origin, including the Karakoyunlu, Agkoyunlu and Safavids. Despite the dominance of large states on the regional political arena, northern Azerbaijan (Shirvan) managed to sustain independent or at least semi-independent status throughout the COUNTRY INFORMATION Shah Ismail I (Khatai), the founder of Safavid Dynasty pictured at battle against Abu al-Khayr Khan in a scene from the Tarikh-i Alam-Aray-i. 17
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