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Show Azerbaijan argcly Moslem Azerbaijan is a country, largely Moslem, consisting of most of the former Russian provinces of Baku and Yelisavetpol. It has neighbors which do not agree to its territorial claims, but its boundaries are the Caspian sea on the east; Daghestan. Northern Caucasia and Georgia on the north; Georgia and Armenia on the west and Persia on the south. The capital of Azerbaijan is Baku, a city of 4.r2,000, the center of the great oil district of the Caucasus. In 1917 Azerbaijan united with Armenia, Ar-menia, Georgia and Transcaucasia in a federal republic. Disagreements Disagree-ments arose and the federation broke up, Azerbaijan declaring itself it-self independent in 1918. It ca'ls it-self it-self the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet republic, and Is one of the Ruusiuii Soviet family. |