Posted
on June 15, 2015
Today
is the anniversary of this date in 1993 when the Parliament of
Azerbaijan invited Heydar Aliyev to lead the country.
Azerbaijan
is sort of a border country, sandwiched between Eastern Europe and
Western Asia. I had to read several sources to determine that it is
generally classified as an Asian nation, not a European one. BUT it
is a member state of the Council of Europe and the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe, so maybe it is trying to get
itself reclassified as European?
(Back
when I was a kid, people were trying to shrink the number of
continents by one, calling the hugest land mass on Earth “Eurasia.”
That makes so much sense! I'm not sure why we have dropped that idea,
at least for the most part.)
Like
so many other nations, Azerbaijan was once a part of the Soviet
Union. Before it was brought into the U.S.S.R., Azerbaijan had become
the first democratic, secular Muslim-majority nation in the world; it
is still secular, still majority-Muslim, and still democratic, mostly
– but it has been plagued with some military coups, and the current
ruling party has been accused of human rights violations.
Here
are some amazing things to see in Azerbaijan:
Mud
Volcanoes
Azerbaijan
has about 400 mud volcanoes!
Mosques
and Mountains
Where there are mountains, there are also valleys!
Also,
often, there are cliffs. YIKES!
Modern
Cities
Flame
Towers (in Baku) and lovely fountains (at Galaba)
Ancient
Ruins
“The
Tower” (at Baku) and early temples (at Galaba)
And
this tunnel of trees!
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on this date:
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ahead:
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