MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Azerbaijan

ONE LAND · 7 ATLASES

Azerbaijan, on the map of history

What was Azerbaijan before it was Azerbaijan? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.

Caucasian Albania (mod. Azerbaijan) · The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476

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Arran & Shirvan (mod. Azerbaijan) · The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294

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Azerbaijan · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

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Azerbaijan · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924

The oil of Baku made Azerbaijan a prize everyone wanted. Independent from 1918 under the Musavat party, it was sovietized in April 1920 when the Red Army arrived to secure the oilfields — the first of the Caucasus republics to fall.

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Azerbaijan (Russian Empire) · The Great War, 1914–1918

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Azerbaijan · The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945

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Azerbaijan · The Cold War, 1945–1991

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