History of the name Azerbaijan or Azerbaijan, Atropatkan (Atropate location)

The name of Azerbaijan has been changed to "Atropatkan" (Atropate location) Is.

The root of this name is the Persian general of the Achaemenids. "Atropat" Atropat and Atropategan returns. In the 17th and 18th centuries, this area was calledAlban" And "آرانIt was also said that both are probably pronunciations of the same name. "Azar" has changed “later” And "Baijan» Changed “پاتگان” Is. (Azerbaijan book, New Delhi Sky Line Publishing, 2014) Atropat Satrap (From nobles ) He was a Persian who saved the northern parts of Iran from occupation during Alexander's attack. In the Turkmanchai and Golestan treaties, the name of Azerbaijan is not given to the northern part of Aras River. It is only in the 20th century that the name of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani takes on an ethnic nature.

The name of Azerbaijan in 1918 and during the Congress of Equality party replaced the original and historical name Caucasus, Iran and Albania became. This naming was done with the aim of separating Azerbaijan from Iran. The government of Equality in the Caucasus gave the name of Azerbaijan to these regions because it was thought that with the establishment of a republic called Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan and this republic became one and Azerbaijan was separated from this country. to be. At the same time, there were objections to this naming in Iran. In this regard, even the German Marquardt objected to this work, which was translated and printed in "Iranshahr" magazine..

Mohammad Khayabani also temporarily named Azadisetan to Iranian Azerbaijan to differentiate it from Soviet Azerbaijan..

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Mohseni, Mohammad Reza 2009: Pan-Turkism, Iran and Azerbaijan, Samarkand Publications, p. 127

Mohseni, Mohammad Reza 2009: Pan-Turkism, Iran and Azerbaijan, Samarkand Publications, p. 31

These two treaties were published in Iranology Magazine, Volume 1, Number 3, 1989, Issue 458 under the title "Where is Azerbaijan" by Jalal Matini..

Ahmad Kasravi, Shahriaran Anoshim, Tehran, Amir Kabir Publications, Ch. 5, 1357, pages 255-257

Encyclopaedia Iranica entry in Azerbaijan

Vasily Bartold Bartold V.V. , “Sochinenia”, volume II, part 1, “Eastern Literature” Publishers, Moscow, 1963, p. ۷۰۳

Minorsky, V. ; Minorsky, V. “Ādharbaydjān (Azarbaydyan).” Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P.Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007. Brill Online “ called in Middle Persian Āturpātākān, older new-Persian Ād̲h̲arbād̲h̲agān, Ād̲h̲arbāyagān, at present Āzarbāyd̲j̲ān, Greek ᾿Ατροπατήνη, Byzantine Greek ᾿Αδραβιγάνων, Armenian Atrapatakan, Syriac Ad̲h̲orbāyg̲h̲ān. The province was called after the general Atropates (“protected by fire”), who at the time of Alexander’s invasion proclaimed his independence (328 B.C.) and thus preserved his kingdom (Media Minor, Strabo, xi, 13, 1) in the north-western corner of later Persia (cf. Ibn al-Muḳaffaʿ, in Yāḳūt, i, 172, and al-Maḳdisī, ۳۷۵: Ād̲h̲arbād̲h̲ b. Bīwarasf).

K. Shippman, “Azerbaijan: Pre-Islamic History” in Encyclopædia Iranica In the Achaemenid period Azerbaijan was part of the satrapy of Media. When the Achaemenid empire collapsed, Atropates, the Persian satrap of Media, made himself independent in the northwest of this region in 321 B.C. Thereafter Greek and Latin writers named the territory Media Atropatene or, less frequently, Media Minor (e.g. Strabo 11.13.1; Justin 23.4.13). The Middle Persian form of the name was (early) Faster, (later) Ādurbādgān) whence the New Persian Ādarbāyjān

Recasting Oneself, Rejecting the Other: Pan-Turkism and Iranian Nationalism By: Dr. Touraj Atabaki 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. Taurus & Company, Limited, 2001. p 80. Khiyabani and his fellow Democrats, in order to dissociate themselves from the Transcaucasians, decided to change the name of Iranian Azerbaijan to Azadistan (Land of Freedom). (34) By way of justifying this decision, they referred to the important ‘heroic role’ Azerbaijan had played in the struggle to establish the Constitution in Iran which, in their view, warranted adopting the name Azadistan. (35)