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Armenian musicians from Verin Agulis (Yuxarı Əylis), Nakhchivan, 1890
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Armenian musicians from Verin Agulis (Yuxarı Əylis), Nakhchivan, 1890
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Palace of Nakhchivan Khans
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What’s modern life like in the Azerbaijan village that’s as old as the Bible?
Photographic series by Sitara Ibrahimova
Allegedly where Noah first settled after his ark touched land, Azerbaijan’s little known exclave of Nakhchivan is characterised by Martian landscapes and ongoing border tensions. Photographer Sitara Ibrahimova offers an intimate look at life in this contested region
Life passes quietly in Siyagut, a village in Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhchivan — a pocket of land that lies southwest of Armenia, on the Iranian and Turkish border. Characterised by its semi-arid Martian landscape, short snowy winters and long hot summers, a quick internet search will tell you that the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is the biggest exclave in the world, but reveal nothing about its culture or the lives of its people. According to local legend, this is exactly where Noah first set foot after his ark touched land. Visitors today enter Nakhichevan by plane, since the border with Armenia is firmly closed. Photographer Sitara Ibrahimova flew to Nakhchivan city from Baku where she is based. “After accidentally running into an old friend, Ata, he wanted to show me his childhood village. Allegedly, this village was bought from an agha by one unknown trader for three rubies. For this reason the name of the village means ‘three rubies’ in Persian.” Compared to its progressive capital, in Siyagut villagers make a living working the land. Over winter, when Ibrahimova was there, people grow spinach (with spinach cake a local delicacy) and seed potatoes for spring. “The inhabitants of the village spend their free time in front of the television. As I encountered staying with Ata’s relatives, they were mostly preoccupied with Indian soap operas. These Indian TV shows are the number one topic of conversation among neighbours.” Her photos feature famous Nakhichevan landmarks such as the Mausoleum of Yusif ibn Kuseyir and the 2,000-year-old Alinja Fortress that boasts comparisons to Machu Picchu. Yet it is her images of village life that are most revealing about the historically contested region.
ᴅüɴʏᴀ öᴢüᴍüᴢüɴ ʙɪʀ əᴋsɪᴍɪᴢᴅɪʀ. ᴏɴᴀ sᴇᴠɪɴᴄ ᴠə ᴍᴇʜʀɪʙᴀɴʟıǫʟᴀ ʙᴀxıʀıǫsᴀ, ᴏ ᴅᴀ ʙɪᴢə ᴇʏɴɪ şəᴋɪʟᴅə ᴄᴀᴠᴀʙ ᴠᴇʀɪʀ✨
The unofficial flag of Nakhchivan has a beatiful colour scheme
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Another state in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan has a rather storied history, and was, in 1918, the first democratic state in the Muslim world when the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was declared. (It was subsumed into the Soviet Union in 1920.) Like Angola, Azerbaijan has an exclave, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, which is an interesting study in its own right, and which still feels the effects of the Armenia-Azerbaijan War over, among other things, the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. [Nakhchivan is, perhaps not surprisingly, one of the only autonomous regions in the world that recognizes Northern Cyprus as a sovereign entity.]
Stamp details: Stamp on top: Issued in: 1920 From: Baku, Azerbaijan MC #1
Stamps on bottom: Issued on: October 30, 1999 From: Baku, Azerbaijan MC #BL39
Recognized as a sovereign state by the UN: Yes (since March 2, 1992) Official name: Republic of Azerbaijan; Azərbaycan Respublikası Member of the Universal Postal Union: Yes (since April 1, 1993)
Armenian cross-stone ornaments from Julfa cemetery
The Armenian cemetery in Julfa was a medieval-era cemetery near the town of Julfa, Nakhchivan, an exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan that originally housed around 10,000 funerary monuments. The tombstones consisted mainly of thousands of khachkars, uniquely decorated cross-stones characteristic of medieval Christian Armenian art. The cemetery was still standing in the late 1990s, when the government of Azerbaijan began a systematic campaign to destroy the monuments. In the spring of 2006, a journalist from the Institute for War and Peace Reporting who visited the area reported that no visible traces of the cemetery remained. In the same year, photographs taken from Iran showed that the cemetery site had been turned into a military firing range. After studying and comparing satellite photos of Julfa taken in 2003 and 2009, in December 2010 the American Association for the Advancement of Science came to the conclusion that the cemetery was demolished and leveled.
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Market scene in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
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