2022 In Azerbaijan
This is a list of individuals and events related to Azerbaijan in 2022. Incumbents Events Ongoing * COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan January * 5 January — 2022 was declared the "Year of Shusha" * 7 January — Khanim Fatimeyi-Zahra mosque, "Khanim Fatimeyi-Zahra" mosque in Yeni Günəşli settlement of Suraxanı raion, Suraxanı district was put into use after reconstruction * 10 January — Ilham Aliyev accepted he credentials of the newly appointed ambassadors of South Korea and Algeria to Azerbaijan: ** Ambassador of South Korea – Lee In-young, Lee In-Yong ** Ambassador of Algeria – Abdelouahab Osman * 14 January — Ilham Aliyev visited Ukraine and met President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv * 18 January — Ilham Aliyev inaugurated the statue of Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev in Baku February * 11 February – A new 20 manat banknote was put into circulation * 21 February ** Ilham Aliyev visited Russia ** 2 members of Nation ...
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the ...
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