In Soviet times Nagorno-Karabakh was a mostly Armenian-populated autonomous enclave inside Azerbaijan, some 4, 000 square kilometres (1, 540 square miles) big.

在苏联时期，纳卡地区曾是阿塞拜疆境内的一个自治州，大部分人口为亚美尼亚人，地域面积达四千平方公里(约合1.540平方英里)。

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NEARLY four months have passed since Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited the oil-rich Caucasus state of Azerbaijan as part of her tour of several former Soviet republics.

差不多四个月前，美国国务卿希拉里•克林顿造访石油资源丰富的阿塞拜疆高加索省， 阿塞拜疆是她此番访问的几个前苏联国家之一。

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1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

1920年的今天，阿塞拜疆加入苏联。

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Sharing cramped geographic quarters with Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia is no easy task, yet Azeris in this Muslim-majority country enjoy one of the most pro-Western, liberalized societies in the region (consider that women gained the right to vote in pre-Soviet Azerbaijan in 1919, narrowly beating out the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment).

FORBES: America, Meet Azerbaijan

The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan is celebrating the first flow of oil from the Caspian Sea for decades.

BBC: Oil flows from the Caspian Sea

President Bush is playing host today to the leader of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, in what some say is a litmus test of the president's so-called freedom agenda.

NPR: Azerbaijan President Visits Washington