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Nestled at the highest level of the Great Caucasus Mountains of Azerbaijan, an hour drive along a new road from the Azerbaijani city of Guba, the village of Khinalig is well known for its unique language, architecture and traditions. With its unique language and traditions, the picturesque village of Khinalig …

Azerbaijan will produce a TV series about national philanthropist and oil magnate Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev. The eight-part film will be shot with the support of the Culture Ministry, Baku Media Center and several other organizations. The preparation stage of the series is underway. Meanwhile, UNESCO will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great philanthropist in 2023. The film project …

The first thing people see while coming to Baku’s Highland Park is the lines of graves, identical rows of light marble with portraits of men, women, and children. The tombstones bear the same date of death – January 20, 1990. The day of January 20, 1990, became a tragic and …

Used by every family in Azerbaijan, lavash is a soft, thin unleavened flatbread made of flour and water. The word “lavash” is repeatedly found in early Turkic written sources. While in other countries, these flat cakes are called “katyrma”, “zhupka” or “yufka”, however, their composition and taste is almost the …

Karabakh horse breed, which is one of the oldest horse breeds in the world, is a symbol of national heritage and pride of the Azerbaijani people. Today there are more than 425 breeds of horses around the world, two of which appeared in Azerbaijan – the Karabakh and the Dilboz …

After the liberation of Shusha, one of the significant centers of Azerbaijan’s historical, cultural, political and social life, the cradle of art and culture and the source of our pride, Azertac correspondents visited the homeland of Panahali Khan many times to make numerous reports and news of different topics. The …

In the North of Azerbaijan lies one of the country`s oldest villages – Lahij, that was once the copper mining hub producing copperware exported across the Middle East. Copper craftsmanship of Lahij is the traditional practice of making and using copperware. Located on the left bank of the Girdimanchay River …

The poem of “Khosrow and Shirin” by great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi contains the following lines: “The bow, like Moses, groans and glows; the musician silently hears out the singer.” These lines refer to the musical instrument kamancha. By the end of the 1st millennium, the bowed stringed …

In 2022, the Azerbaijani people will celebrate the 270th anniversary of Shusha the foundation of which was laid by Azerbaijani Karabakh khanate’s Panahali khan in 1752. Taking into account this glorious history and in order to accelerate the restoration of Shusha, President Ilham Aliyev declared 2022 as the “Year of …

The Sochi meeting was another critical diplomatic round in the post-war negotiations; it laid down the provisional foundations of the future delimitation and demarcation of the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border and reiterated the centrality of the format of the negotiations, the origins of which go back to the 10 November ceasefire deal. It perhaps …