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Azerbaijan Tourism
The favorable geographical position of the country, rich natural resources and nice climate always made Azerbaijan a country attractive and sometimes not just for peaceful settlers. It also served as bait for aggressive moves of various tribes and empires like Roman and Parthian, Arab Caliphate, Great Horde of Chenguiz Khan, empires of Tamerlan, Ottoman Turks and Russia.
Each area in Azerbaijan keeps numerous archeological evidence of people having already lived here in prehistoric or ancient time. The climate, abundance of water resources served the most ancient people that inhabited the area, as was proven by scientific materials on the research of Azykh and Taglar caves. Sometimes the natives found a refuge from invaders and conflicts high in the mountains, where their shelters developed as separate settlements with isolated ethnic groups holding on to their original way of life. The agriculture and cattle-breeding started by the late Neolithic period alongside with the primitive building and pottery.
Then the archaic painted ceramics and schematic petroglyphs (scientific materials on Gobustan, Gamigaya, Shakhtahti, Shomutepe, Alikepektepe, Kultepe) have appeared. During the Bronze epoch (3-1 millenniums BC) the metal processing (weaponry) related crafts have appeared; products from bone, textiles, and painted ceramics improved. Connections with peoples of Asia Minor and Near East (scientific materials on the Kur-Araz culture that were discovered in many places of modern Azerbaijan) intensively developed.
Then first big tribal unions, which mentioned in various ancient written sources (namely, Sumerian-Acadian ones), appeared. Throughout its history, Azerbaijan was mostly a part of various empires, but became a large state building center in the medieval period for the states of Atabays Ildenizids (12-13th centuries AD), the States of Garagoyunlu and Аggoyunlu (15th century AD), the State of Safavids (16-17th centuries AD). But the first large State, Manna Kingdom with the capital Izirtu, was established in the 9th century BC. It became the very first State created by ancestors of Azerbaijanis; the local statehood history that counts already 3 thousand years begins with it.
Each area in Azerbaijan keeps numerous archeological evidence of people having already lived here in prehistoric or ancient time. The climate, abundance of water resources served the most ancient people that inhabited the area, as was proven by scientific materials on the research of Azykh and Taglar caves. Sometimes the natives found a refuge from invaders and conflicts high in the mountains, where their shelters developed as separate settlements with isolated ethnic groups holding on to their original way of life. The agriculture and cattle-breeding started by the late Neolithic period alongside with the primitive building and pottery.
Then the archaic painted ceramics and schematic petroglyphs (scientific materials on Gobustan, Gamigaya, Shakhtahti, Shomutepe, Alikepektepe, Kultepe) have appeared. During the Bronze epoch (3-1 millenniums BC) the metal processing (weaponry) related crafts have appeared; products from bone, textiles, and painted ceramics improved. Connections with peoples of Asia Minor and Near East (scientific materials on the Kur-Araz culture that were discovered in many places of modern Azerbaijan) intensively developed.
Then first big tribal unions, which mentioned in various ancient written sources (namely, Sumerian-Acadian ones), appeared. Throughout its history, Azerbaijan was mostly a part of various empires, but became a large state building center in the medieval period for the states of Atabays Ildenizids (12-13th centuries AD), the States of Garagoyunlu and Аggoyunlu (15th century AD), the State of Safavids (16-17th centuries AD). But the first large State, Manna Kingdom with the capital Izirtu, was established in the 9th century BC. It became the very first State created by ancestors of Azerbaijanis; the local statehood history that counts already 3 thousand years begins with it.
