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Baku Ateshgah or the Fire Temple of Baku, Azerbaijan.

Together, the Ararat Mountains straddle the borders of what are present-day Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan. Mt. Ararat (“Greater Ararat”) rises to a height of 5,137 m (16,854 ft). Mt. Ararat’s neighboring mountain, Little Ararat (“Ararat...

Ateshgah Fire Temple, Azerbaijan.

Atropates, (370 BCE to c. 321 BCE), a Median nobleman and Persian general who served under Darius III and Alexander the Great, and eventually founded an independent kingdom Media-Atropatene (Lesser Media) and dynasty that was named after...

Persian Poet Nizami (l. c. 1141-1209 CE) depicted on a rug. Ganja Museum, Azerbaijan

Sasanian copper dish from the village of Khinisly (not far from Shamakhi town). National Museum of History, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Statue of Arranshah Juansher (Pahlavi) (King Javanshir of Caucasus Albania), 637-669. A copy of the bronze sculpture of Javanshir at the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan. The original work is kept at the Hermitage.

The ruins of the Zoroastrian fire temple Adur Gushnasp, Takhte-e Soleyman, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

A Torah in the Synagogue of Ashkenazi Jews in Baku, Azerbaijan.