AZERBAJAN HAS BEENINFLUENCED BY ISLAM AND EUROPEAN CULTURES ISLMIC AND EUROPEAN CULTURES. IRAN AND TURKEY HERITAGE ASN WELL ASRUSSIAN ARE DUE TO ITS FORMER STAUS AS A A SOVIET REPUBLIC. WESTERN INFLUENCEES ARE STRONG TODAY.
THIS COUNTRYT WAS FORMERLY NAMED ARAN. IT HAS DIVERSE ETHNICITIES END AT LEAST 8 MILLION PEOPLE. THESE FOLKS INHERITED VARIOUS TYPES OF ANCIENT PEOPLE AND CULTURAL ROOTS.
CUACASUIAN AZERBAUNS ARE BELIEVED TO BE EARLIEST IN HABITNTS OF THISD LAND ABOVE THE ARAS RIVER. BY 550 BC. THE SCYTHIAN IRANIANS BY 550 B C . THE SCYTHIAN IRANIANS ASSIMILATED HERE. SOME FOLKS HAS ASSIMILATED HERE. SOME FOLKS HAQD SCURMISHES AND SOME FOLKS WERE DEFEATED BY MUSLIMS. THERE WERE AZERBAIJAN HERE FOR CENTURIES UNDER SASSANID RULE. ARABS ABD KURDISH DYNASTIES WERE HERE AS WELL.
SOME FOLKS PRACTICED SUFI, A MYSTICAL DIMENSION OF ISLAM. SUFI IS REVEALED BY GABRIEL. THEY PURIFY THEIR INNER SELF AND BEAUTIFY THEMSELVES. THEY HAVE IRANIAN RELIGION. THAT ALL IS ZOROASTRRANIUS AND STRESSES THAT ALL IS GOOD AND NO EVIL IS FROM GOD. IT IS AN ANCIENT RELIGION. IN THE 1800'S THEY WERE DEFEATED BY RUSSIAN RULE. BY 1917 THE RUSSIAQN EMPIRE COLLAPSED AND WAS A GANJA IN MAY. BY THIS TIME THE QWOMEN GIVEN EQUAL POLITICAL RIGHTS WITH MEN.
THEY HAD MANY ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL AND MANY TYPES OF WALLED CITIES. AND THEY SURVIVE IN MODERN COUNTRY OF AZERBAYAN.
THEY HAVE MEDIEVAL AND ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES REFLECTING TURKIC ROOTS IN PALACES. THEY BUILT MANY BRIDGES AND MONUMENTS. IRANIAN CULTURE INFLUENCED THESE FOLKS BY THEIR POETS AND BOOKS OF VARIOUS STORIES. TURKIC RULE TOOK POWER UNTIL 1500'S. THE SOVIETS TOOK CONTROL IN WW II. AFTER IRAN REGAINED CONTROL. BY 1900'S THEY HAD OUTDOOR MARKETS.
THE EARLIEST MAJOR TURKIC INCURSION BY THE 11TH CENTURY INFLUENCED THESE FOLKS. SO THAT MOST PEOPLE SPOKE TURKISH. IRANIANS ARRIVED IN THE 8TH CENTURY B.C. AT ONE TIME THESE FOLKS LANDS WERE KINGDOM. TODAY THEY HAVE LANGUAGE OF DARI, AZARI, PAHLAVI. AND OTHERS.
THE ABORIGINAL CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED BY ANCIENT IRANIANS. IRNIAN PEAKING POPULATIONS FROMAZERBAJANARE GENETICALLY CLOSER TO THIS REPUBLIC. HISTPORICALLY THE TURKIC SPEAKERS ARE RELIGIOUS.
MANY AZERBS LIVE IN IRAN. 11 - 20 MILLION WITH 8 MILLION IN AZERB. THE MAJORITY ARE LITERATE. THEY HAVE BEEN DEEPLY IMPACTED BY WAR. THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION CAME IN 1979. THEY INTERMARRY AMONG UPPER AND LOWER CLASSES. THEY TRADE WITH IRAN. MANY FOLKS ARE BILINGUAL. SOME OF THEIR ARTISTS ARE SINGERS AND DANCERS. MANY DANCE FOLK DANCES. THEIR SINGING BARDS ARE CALLED ASHIQS AND THEY ARE FROM OLD DAYS. IRAN FORCED OPPOSITION TOWARD MUSIC!
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