Azerbaijan

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The Republic of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan) in the Near East between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus with the capital Baku covers 86,600 km². It borders Russia to the north, Georgia to the north-west, Iran to the south, Armenia to the west and Turkey for 17 kilometres via the exclave of Nakhichevan (separated from the heartland by a strip of Armenian territory). The former USSR state became independent in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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History

Azerbaijan is located in the historical region of Transcaucasia, which is one of the cradles of wine culture. In Galabaglar, Galajig and Kültan, seeds from cultivated grapes, stone tools for pressing and stone vessels for fermentation and storage dating back to the 2nd millennium BC have been found. The Greek historian Herodotus (482-425 BC) reports that a highly developed wine culture already existed in the 7th century BC. The Roman scholar Strabo (63 BC to 28 AD) also describes something similar from the 1st century AD.

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