User:Brandmeister/Pre-1918 mentions of Azerbaijan

Before the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) in 1918, the toponym "Azerbaijan", sometimes with slightly different spelling, has been occasionally extended from southern Iranian Azerbaijan to the north, up to the modern Republic of Azerbaijan. After the treaties of Gulistan and of Turkmenchay, several imperial Russian sources retained the name "Azerbaijan" ("Aderbijan") for Russia's possessions that would later become the ADR.

9th century
"Districts of Aderbeijan: Ardabil, Berzend, Varsan, Berda'a."

10th century
"We connect Armenia, Arran and Aderbeijan on one map and consider them as one area."

"There are four provinces of Aderbeijan: Ardabil, Merand, Jabravan, Varsan, and the capital city of Berda'a."

13th century
"...in certain passages, he (Yaqut al-Hamawi) annexes to it (Azerbaijan), in addition to the steppes of Moḡān, all of the province of Arrān, bringing the frontier of the country up to Kor, indicating, however, that from this period the conception of Azerbaijan tended to be extended to the north and that its meaning was being rapidly transformed."

14th century
"In Nuzhat al-Kulub (730/1340), 89, Nakhicewan and Ordubad, on the left bank of the Araxes, are mentioned under Adharbaydjan."

16th–18th centuries
"In Safavi times, Azerbaijan was applied to all the Muslim-ruled khanates of the eastern Caucasus as well as to the area south of the Aras River..."

1727
"The Turkish borders, having encompassed the entire area between the Kura and the Araks, that is, the entire Adirbijan, and more... stretch in a straight line to Kermanshah."

1786
"One of Fatali Khan's contemporaries, Colonel Burnashev, [...] in his 1786 description of political situation in Azerbaijani districts, wrote the following: 'As for the current state of those lands that are known under the name Adrebijani: Starting from the north Georgia is adjacent, that is, the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartveli, from the east the Caspian Sea and Gilan province, Iraq region from the south, Turkey from the west... [...] The Khan of Derbent or Kuba is among the most powerful ones [...] he calls for major endeavors against his neighbors like the neighboring Aderbijan khans, such as those of Nukha, of Shirvan and of Shusha' [...] It is also important to note that Colonel Burnashev [...] calls Azerbaijan not only the regions of Maragha, Tabriz, Ardabil, but also the lands of Sheki, Ganja, Shusha, Nakhichevan, Shamakhi, Baku. [...] While in Tbilisi, Burnashev, when preparing the description, used information that he had obtained from contemporaries, the people who knew Azerbaijan. The text of his description clearly shows the absence of any borrowings from Arabic or Iranian written sources, it relies on live narrative. From the above, it follows that already at the time of Burnashev's writing, Azerbaijan meant among people not only the southern, but also the northern part of the country."

1795
"If Aga-Magomet-khan wants to achieve recognition of his shah title, then it is necessary, firstly, that he cease his actions in the areas adjacent to the Caspian Sea and against the lords who are subjects to our authority, namely... the khans of Derbent, Baku, Talysh, also Shusha and others, residing in Aderbeijan..."

1804
"The local position of the Ganja Fortress commands all Adribeijan."

1820s
"During the campaign of 1827–1828 Russian troops occupied Azerbaijan. A difficult issue of organizing the administration in the occupied territory arose. The important task to draw up 'The Statute on the Governance of Azerbaijan' was entrusted to Griboyedov. He had prepared 'The General Rules for the Operation of the Azerbaijani Administration', which were then approved by the commander-in-chief."

1845
"The Province (Azerbaijan) appears, indeed, to have varied in extent at different periods, and comprehended several tracts not belonging to modern Azerbaijan, such as Moghan, near the mouths of the Cyrus (Kur), Talish or Talij..."

1850
"He (Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren) shows, from the places mentioned in the Zend Avesta, that the native land of Zoroaster was Northern Media, Azerbaijan, the country between the river Kur and Araxes [...]"

1861
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1914
"...the Ganja Fortress, considered the best in all of Azerbaijan, fell after an hour and a half of the assault."