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The world economic crisis of 1900-1902s, also influenced Azerbaijan. The extraction of oil fell from 667,1 million pud in 1901 to 601,5 million pud in 1903, the activity in other fields, which were related with oil decreased, the number of jobless people grew. In 1901-1903s, about 30% of Baku workers …

Changes occurred all over the world in the second half of the 19th century, influenced to socio-economic life of Azerbaijan too. Industrial rise in the Russian empire, which began after the abolishment of serfdom, shaped demand to essential sources of raw-materials in the environs. In the process of development of …

Tsarism did its best to create social column in the conquered territories. Tsarism which did not entrust to local governing class and which ignored their rights in first years attempted to create such column from foreign elements, but in the 40s of the 19th century, it conducted the course on …

At the result of struggle among Azerbaijan khanates and intensification pretends of neighbourhood states to Azerbaijan, the internal and international circumstances of Azerbaijan became strained at the beginning of the 19th century. There led feudal strife in Azerbaijan, expansive intensions of powerful neighbourhood states much more increased and they wanted …

In this period Azerbaijan culture developed in the condition of feudal strife and fought against foreign invaders. The turn of Azerbaijan into an arena of permanent wars caused to the destruction of architectural monuments and to the death of cultural figures. Simultaneously, there began prosper of cultural development at this …

Feudal strife and the leadership of national industry in Azerbaijan influenced negatively to the economy of the country. Nevertheless rich lands and the liberation of these areas from foreign invaders shaped determined conditions for the development of agriculture, craft and trade. There existed the division of labour among several spheres …

Differing from Norhtern Azerbaijan, the struggle for the throne in Iran ended with the establishment of centralized state. Agha Muhammed Shah Qajar came to the throne here in 1781 and moved the capital to Tehran in 1785. Although Shah Qajar was Turk by origin and although he had wide relations …

The statehood of Azerbaijan was restorated with the formation of khanates. This was proved with the independent foreign policy, which was conducted by khans. But khanates were weak from military-political viewpoint. Local strife weakened them much. That is why, khanates shaped relations with Iran, Turkey, Russia and Kartli-Cakhetia, did their …

The Azerbaijan statehood was restored in the half of the 18th century. There was established the line of state entities-feudal khanates in the struggle against Iranian authority in the territory of Azerbaijan. It is important to mention that the first khanates had shaped in the first half of the 18th …

The restoration of Iranian reign in Azerbaijan during Nadir Shah’s (1736-1747) authority was not simple. Nadir Shah had to suppress uprisings in Azerbaijan and Daghestan for many times. In 1738, there occurred an outbreak of the union of “liberal communities” of Car, which was established in North-Western Azerbaijan in 16th-17th …