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Azerbaijan and Iran compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 43
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 4
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
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Entangled histories
4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- c. 1st century BCE
The kingdom of Caucasian Albania
The Caucasian Albanians established a kingdom in the eastern Caucasus, much of which overlaps present-day Azerbaijan, before falling under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Persian Empire.
Formation · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Gobustan, Caucasian Albania and the land of fire · Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (ed. Glenn E. Curtis), Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
- 1501
Ismail I and the Safavid empire
Crowned shah at Tabriz with his base in Azerbaijan, Ismail I founded the Safavid dynasty and made Twelver Shia Islam the state religion, binding the land to Persia.
Religion · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · Safavid dynasty, Ismāʿīl I, shah of Iran
- 1813
Treaty of Gulistan
Ending the Russo-Persian war of 1804–13, Persia ceded to Russia the eastern Caucasus khanates from Lankaran to Derbent, including Baku, Shirvan, Ganja and Karabakh.
War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · Treaty of Golestān (Gulistan), 1813, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence
- 1828
Treaty of Turkmenchay
The second Russo-Persian war ended with Turkmenchay, confirming Russian rule and adding Nakhichevan and Yerevan, fixing the Aras-river border that still divides the two Azerbaijans.
War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · Treaty of Turkmenchay, 1828, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence