Republic of Azerbaijan.

Republic of Azerbaijan is situated in Caucasia. It's a small country (86600 sq.km.) with a population about 9111000 (but more than 1000000 Azerbaijanians lives in Russia).
First people (Neanderthal men) appeared there 1500000 years ago! At II century b.c. albanian tribes lived in Azerbaijan.
At VIIth century arabian muslims conquered Albanian land in Azerbaijan.
During next centuries caucasian albanians assimilated with Arabs, Persians and Turks. And as a result of this assimilation there were modern Azerbaijanians.
At XIIIth century Mongolian troops conquered Azerbaijan and joined it with their Empire. At the second half of the XIVth century mongolians left their caucasian lands. Azerbaijan became the Persian possession.
At the end of XVIth century Turkish troops occupied Azerbaijan, but a several years after Persians won the war against Turkey and got their possession back.

 

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In the beginning of XVIIIth century Turks conquered Azerbaijan again, but lost it 6 years after. During the next decades Azerbaijan belonged to Persia. At 1813 Russia won the war against Persia and joined Azerbaijan with Russian Empire.

 

After the Bolshevik Revolution 1917, Azerbaijanian Democratic Republic was proclaimed (at May 28 1918). During the 1919-1920 Azerbaijan was occupied by Turkish troops, but liberated by Soviet troops at April 1920.
At December 1922 Azerbaijan joined with Armenia and Georgia in the Transcaucasian Federation. This federation joined with USSR. At 1936 the Transcaucasian Federation was annuled and Azerbaijan became the Soviet Republic.
At Desember 1991 USSR was annuled and Azerbaijan became an independent state.

 

Azerbaijan has an own currency - manat. One manat = 100 qapik. First coins were minted at 1992.

 

Azerbaijan.
5 qapik 1993, aluminium.

 

The neighbour of Azerbaijan is a small caucasian country - Republic of Armenia. The history of Armenia is very interesting. It was a part of the Roman Empire. And Armenia was the first Christian state (before the Rome!).
During the VII-IX centuries Armenia belonged to Arabian muslims, but was liberated at 860.
Since 860 until 1045 Armenia was an independent country, but at 1045 a part of its territory has been conquered by Byzantines.
At 1064 the second part of Armenia was occupied by Turks.

 

Since XII until XIIIth century Armenia belonged to Kingdom of Georgia, but then was occupied by Mongolian troops. During the XIII-XIVth century Armenia was the part of Mongolian Empire.
At 1510 Persians conquered Armenia and joined it with their country. But at 1560 Armenia was divided on a twoparts between Persia and Turkey.
At 1603-1605 Persian troops occupied the Turkish part of Armenia and destroyed all houses, villages and settlements. Persians violently evacuated Armenians on territory of Persia.

 

In the second quarter of the XVIIIth century Armenia was joined with Azerbaijan. But that union was annuled at 1747. During the first half of XIXth century Armenian lands were joined with Russian Empire. It was rescue for Armenians as Russian were Christians too. Russians protected them from Iranians and a Turk (muslims).
During the WW I Turks murdered about 1500000 Armenians. It was the crime against the humanity.
When WW I was finished, Armenia proclaimed own independence, but at December 1922 joined with Azerbaijan and Georgia in the Transcaucasian Federation and became a part of USSR.
When TF was annuled in 1936, Armenia became the Soviet Republic.
Armenia becaim an independent state at December 1991.

 

Armenia has an own currency - dram. One dram = 100 luma. First coins were minted at 1994.

 

Armenia.
10 luma 1994, aluminium.

 

20 luma 1994, aluminium.

 

50 luma 1994, aluminium.

 

One dram 1994, aluminium.

 

3 dram 1994, aluminium.

 

5 dram 1994, aluminium.

 

10 dram 1994, aluminium.

 

20 dram 2003, copper plated steel, weight - 2,8 g., size - 20,5 mm.

 

200 dram 2003, brass, weight - 4,4 g., size - 23,9 mm.

 

That is all.

 

Oh, you got me confused, Eugene. When I was browsing your latest posts in this topic, I thought, huh, these are not from Azerbaijan ... maybe I should have started reading at the end, hehe. Yes, Armenia has interesting coins, also because their alphabet and characters are (from my point of view) so different from what I usually see on coins. Thanks for presenting them here!

Christian