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Azerbaijan Writers' Union

The Azerbaijan Writers' Union is the main professional organization of Azerbaijani writers, poets, and translators, founded in Baku in 1934 and long led by the writer Anar.

Azerbaijani alphabet (Azərbaycan əlifbası): the 32-letter Latin script used for Azerbaijani in the Republic of Azerbaijan since 1991, after earlier Arabic, Latin (1929–1939), and Cyrillic (1939–1991) scripts; transition completed August 1, 2001.

Azerbaijani Armed Forces

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, are the military of Azerbaijan, first established in 1918 and re-formed after independence in 1991.

Azerbaijani ashiq poetry

Azerbaijani ashiq poetry is the verse composed and performed by the ashiqs, poet-musicians of Azerbaijan who combine poetry, storytelling, dance, and music on the saz, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili), an Oghuz Turkic language, is the official language of Azerbaijan with about 50 million speakers, including 30 million in Iran; closely intelligible with Turkish; Latin script since 1991.

Azerbaijani literary criticism

Azerbaijani literary criticism is the study and evaluation of Azerbaijani-language literature, tracing to Nizami Ganjavi's era, with professional foundations laid by Mirza Fatali Akhundov in the 19th century.

Azerbaijani manat

The Azerbaijani manat, also known as the Azeri manat, is the national currency of Azerbaijan, issued by the Central Bank and divided into 100 qəpik since 1992.

Azerbaijani National Council

The Azerbaijani National Council (Azərbaycan Şurayi-Millisi) was the first legislative body of independent Azerbaijan, created on 27 May 1918 in Tiflis by the Muslim faction of the Transcaucasian Seym.

Azerbaijani novel

The Azerbaijani novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Azerbaijani language, written mainly in Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan, which matured under Soviet rule.

Azerbaijani romanticism

Azerbaijani romanticism (Azərbaycan ədəbiyyatında romantizm) was an early 20th-century literary movement in Azerbaijani literature, centered on the journal Füyuzat and lasting until Soviet power in 1920.

Azerbaijani separatism in Iran

Azerbaijani separatism in Iran: political currents among Iran's roughly 30 million Azeris seeking autonomy or secession, anchored in the Soviet-backed Azerbaijan People's Government of 1945-46 under Pishevari and continued today mainly as cultural-linguistic rights activism.

Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis, or Azeris, are a Turkic-speaking people and Shiite Muslims. They are the majority in the Republic of Azerbaijan, with 20 to 30 million in Iran.

AzerEnerji

AzerEnerji, formally Azerenergy OJSC, is Azerbaijan's state-owned electricity company and transmission system operator, producing about 90 percent of the country's power from plants it owns.

Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli

Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli (ACG) is a complex of three offshore oil fields in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, about 100 km east of Baku, operated by BP.

Azeroth

Azeroth is the fictional world of Blizzard's Warcraft franchise, launched with Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. Also the name of an Eastern Kingdoms continent, its calendar counts years from the Dark Portal's opening, and its core holds a titan worldsoul targeted in the Worldsoul Saga.

Azersky

Azersky was a high-resolution Earth observation satellite of Azerbaijan's operator Azercosmos, launched as SPOT 7 in June 2014 and lost to an in-orbit failure in March 2023.

AZERTY

AZERTY is the keyboard layout family used in France and Belgium, named for its top-row letters A-Z-E-R-T-Y. Derived from QWERTY in the 1890s, it offers direct French accents and was standardized as NF Z71-300 in 2019.

Sep 23, 2026

Azes era

The Azes era (अजस् युग) is a calendar era of ancient north-western India, founded by the Indo-Scythian king Azes I and traditionally dated from 58/57 BC.

Sep 23, 2026

Azes II

Azes II (Αζης) was an Indo-Scythian king who ruled Gandhara and Taxila around the turn of the first millennium, known almost entirely from coins and inscriptions.

Azetidine

Azetidine, also known as azacyclobutane or trimethylenimine, is a saturated four-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycle with formula C₃H₇N, first synthesized in 1888 and used in drugs like baricitinib.

Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid

Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid, also called Aze or A2C, is a non-protein imino acid from plants such as lily of the valley and sugar beet that mimics proline.

Oct 21, 2026

Azetukalner

Azetukalner (formerly XEN1101, encukalner) is a Xenon Pharmaceuticals Kv7.2/Kv7.3 potassium channel opener for focal seizures; FDA NDA submitted September 2026 after positive X-TOLE phase 2b and phase 3 trials.

Oct 20, 2026

Azərbaycan milli olimpiya komitəsi

The Azerbaijan National Olympic Committee, founded in 1992 and recognized by the IOC in 1993, fields Azerbaijan's teams at the Olympic Games and is led by Ilham Aliyev.

Azhagae Azhagu

Azhagae Azhagu is a Tamil family drama serial that premiered in 2026, exploring conflicts in a strict patriarchal household and completing 100 episodes in June 2026.

Azhagam Perumal (அழகம் பெருமாள்)

Azhagam Perumal (அழகம் பெருமாள்), born 1965, is a Tamil film director and actor. Assistant director to Mani Ratnam, he debuted as actor in Alaipayuthey (2000) and directed Dumm Dumm Dumm (2001), Joot, and Udhaya before acting full time.