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Entangled histories

7 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.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · AZE LEFT · RUS RIGHT

1. 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 · REFS 2 — Treaty of Golestān (Gulistan), 1813, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence

2. 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 · REFS 2 — Treaty of Turkmenchay, 1828, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence

3. 1920

   Azerbaijan SSR established

   Following the Red Army's entry into Baku, the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was formed, becoming a full union republic of the USSR from 1936.

   Politics & Power · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · REFS 2 — Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (ed. Glenn E. Curtis)

4. April 1920

   Soviet annexation

   The Red Army entered Baku in April 1920 against little resistance, ending the democratic republic and bringing Azerbaijan under Soviet rule.

   War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Baku oil boom and the 1918 republic · REFS 1 — Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence

5. 1923

   Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous oblast created

   The Armenian-majority mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh was constituted as an autonomous oblast within Soviet Azerbaijan, freezing a contested status that would later erupt.

   Politics & Power · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · REFS 2 — Nagorno-Karabakh: conflicts, map and people, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (ed. Glenn E. Curtis)

6. 1988

   Karabakh dispute reignites

   Under perestroika, Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian majority demonstrated for transfer to Armenia, triggering intercommunal violence that grew into open conflict as the Soviet Union collapsed.

   War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · REFS 1 — Nagorno-Karabakh: conflicts, map and people

7. 1989

   Azerbaijan declares sovereignty

   Azerbaijan declared its sovereignty in 1989 as Soviet authority weakened, a first step toward the restoration of independence two years later.

   Independence · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · REFS 1 — Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence