ਅਜ਼ਰਬਾਈਜਾਨ ਜਾਂ ਅਜ਼ਰਬੈਜਾਨ ([آذربایجان; ਆਜ਼ਰਬਾਈਜਾਨ] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); ਅਜ਼ੇਰੀ: [آذربایجان] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), ਜਾਂ ਇਰਾਨੀ ਅਜ਼ਰਬਾਈਜਾਨ[1] ਉੱਤਰ-ਪੱਛਮੀ ਇਰਾਨ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਇਲਾਕਾ ਹੈ। ਇਹਨੂੰ ਇਤਿਹਾਸਕ ਤੌਰ ਉੱਤੇ ਆਤਰੋਪਾਤੀਨ ਜਾਂ ਆਤਰੋਪਤਕਨ ਵੀ ਆਖਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਕੁਝ ਲੋਕ ਇਸ ਇਲਾਕੇ ਨੂੰ ਦੱਖਣੀ ਅਜ਼ਰਬਾਈਜਾਨ ਜਾਂ ਦੱਖਣ ਅਜ਼ਰਬਾਈਜਾਨ ਵੀ ਕਹਿੰਦੇ ਹਨ[2] ਪਰ ਕੁਝ ਸ਼ਗਿਰਦ ਅਤੇ ਸਰੋਤ ਇਹਨਾਂ ਇਸਤਲਾਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਿਆਸੀ ਮਨਸੂਬਾ ਗਿਣਦੇ ਹਨ।[3][4][5]

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ਹਵਾਲੇ ਸੋਧੋ

  1. James Minahan. "Miniature Empires", Published by Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.
  2. Brown, Cameron S. 2002 (Dec.). "Observations from Azerbaijan." Middle East Review of International Affairs: v. 6, no. 4, (LINK Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine.)
  3. Michael P. Croissant, "The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Causes and Implications", Praeger/Greenwood, 1998. excerpt from pg 61: "During the Soviet-era historical revisionism and myth-building intended to denounce imperialism, the notion of a "northern" and "southern" Azerbaijan was created and propagated throughout USSR. It was charged that the "two Azerbaijanis" once united were separated artificially by conspiracy between imperial Russia and Iran".
  4. Ethnic Conflict and International Security, Edited by Michael E. Brown, Princeton University Press, 1993
  5. Bert G. Fragner, ‘Soviet Nationalism’: An Ideological Legacy to the Independent Republics of Central Asia ’ in" in Van Schendel, Willem(Editor) . Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century. London, GBR: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2001. Excerpt from pg 24: "Under Soviet auspices and in accordance with Soviet nationalism, historical Azerbaijan proper was reinterpreted as 'Southern Azerbaijan', with demands for liberation and, eventually, for 're'-unification with Northern (Soviet) Azerbaijan a breathtaking manipulation. No need to point to concrete Soviet political activities in this direction, as in 1945–46 etc. The really interesting point is that in the independent former Soviet republics this typically Soviet ideological pattern has long outlasted the Soviet Union."