Azarbaijan
- Atropates
- Encyclopedia Brittanica (1911): Defining the parameters of Azarbaijan
- Where is Azarbaijan? An analysis of Bakikhanov’s Golistan e Aram by Ali Abdali (Map in English, text in Persian)
- Article in Persian by Professor J. Marquart regarding historical bonds of Azarbaijan with the rest of Iran in Iranshahr Newspaper (1923) (in Persian ) (pdf)
- The Lion and the Sun Motif of Iran: A brief Analysis (note article’s references to the Safavids and the role of azarbaijan in Iran’s history) – بررسی اجمالی نشان شیر و خورشید ایران (pdf)
- Giosofat Barbaro’s Reference to the Identity of Shah Ismail and the Safavids
- Galichian: Resource for Maps and Historical References for the Southern Caucasus (Historical Azarbaijan in northwest Iran, Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan founded in 1918)
Arran, Albania and the Transcaucasian Khanates (Modern Republic of Azerbaijan)
- Professor C.E. Bosworth: Arran (The new Republic of Azarbaijan)
- Research paper by Ivan Nasidze, Tamara Sarkisian, Azer Kerimov, and Mark Soneking: in the 2002 Human Genetics Journal: Genetic Study outlining replacement of Iranic languages with Turkic in the Trans-Caucasus (Modern Republic of Azarbaijan) (pdf)
- Palaces of the Achaemenid Empire found in Arran (modern Republic of Azerbaijan)
- Farroukh Jorat: Fire Temple (Atashgah) of Baku
- Farroukh Jorat: Zoroastrian Toponyms in the Republic of Azerbaijan
- Lev Nussimbaum: from Eastern European Jew to Caucasian Muslim Prince extraordinaire
- Taleshzamin Website: –پیشنهاد تغییر نام جمهوری آذربایجان به « جمهوری آذربایجان شمالی – Proposal to re-name Republic of Azerbaijan as “North Azerbaijan”.
The Caucasian Khanates
- Persian Language Inscription of Shah Abbas I on the Khanates for Baku, Arran and Shirvan
- تاریخ شروان و دربند- ولادیمیر مینورسکی [Professor Vladimir Minorsky: The History of Shirvan and Darband – Persian text posted originally by Shahrbaraz Blog] (pdf)
- Garnik Asatrian & Habib Borjian (2005.). Talish and the Talashis (State of Research). Iran & the Caucasus, 9 (1), pp. 43-72 (pdf)
- Ancient Nakhchevan: New Discoveries of an ancient Iranian legacy
- George A. Bournoutian: The 1823 Russian Survey of the Karabagh Province
The Talish
- Web resources: –شعر تالشی –ایران تالشستان –تالشستون—Talesh Info—پایگاه سربازان گمنام تالشستان —Talesh Music–صدای تالشان (تریبون آزاد تالشان)-–Talesh Yar–Talesh Shenasi–ماهنامه تالش–خانه تالش–Kadoos–اخبار لوندویل–anbaran–چَمَ مَحَل– Talesh 3– Talesh Radio–پایگاه سربازان گمنام تالشستان –
The renaming of Arran and the Transcaucasian Khanates as “Republic of Azarbaijan”
- Professor Enayatollah Reza: Arran-The Real name of the Republic of Azarbaijan
- Professor Enayatollah Reza: Azarbaijan va Arran: Chegoone nam e Azarbaijan bar Arran Nahade shod? [Arran and Azarbaijan: How was the name of Azarbaijan applied to Arran?] (pdf, in Persian).
- Mani Parsa: Azarbaijan and Arran (in Persian)
Legacy of Iranian Languages and Culture in Azarbaijan
Azarbaijan and the ShahnameThe Nozhat al-Majales- The Nozhat ol Majales: A major document proving the Persian legacy of Azarbaijan and Arran
- Professor Moḥammad Amin Riyaḥi: The Nozhat al-Majales
The Safina Tabriz
Articles by Scholars on ancient Iranian languages of Azarbaijan
- Professor W.B. Henning (1954). The Ancient Language of Azerbaijan. Transactions of the Philological Society, pp. 457-477. (pdf)
- Professor Richard Nelson Frye & Professor Oktor Skjaervo, The Middle Persian Inscription from Meshkinshahr, Bulletin of Asia Institute 10, pp. 53-61, 1996 (pdf).
- Professor Ehsan Yarshater: Tati dialect of Kajal in BSOAS volume 23, number 2, 1960.
- Professor Ehsan Yarshater, Azari, Encyclopedia Iranica, pp.235-245 (pdf). This article discusses the he Iranian Azari language of Azarbaijan and the arrival of Turkic languages into the province.
- Professor Ehsan Yarshater, The Xoini Dialect of Zanjan, in PERSICA, XVIII, pp. 85-102, 2002.
- Ahmad Kasravi Azari: the Ancient Language of Azarbaijan (in Persian – pdf)
- An analysis of the ancient language of Azarbaijan by Diakonov (in Persian)-در رابطه با زبان پیشین آذربایجان و دیاکونوف
- Article on the “Safarnamye Abdullah” edited by Sirous Aryanpour regarding ancient Iranian language of Azari prior to Turkic arrivals (see commentary in Persian here).
- Shahrbaraz Blog: زبان آذربایجان [The Language of azarbaijan-in Persian]
Linguistic Turkification of Azarbaijan and southeast Caucasus
- Johanson, Lars (2006). “On the Roles of Turkic in the Caucasus Area”, published in Chapter 7 of “Linguistic Areas Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective”, edited by Yaron Matras, April McMahon, and Nigel Vincent, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.160-161 (pdf). Note especially pp. 162-164 which discuss Turkic arrivals to Azarbaijan and South Caucasus from 11th century AD.
- A note on the Linguistic Turkicization of Azerbaijan,Arran and Sherwan (Shir-e Dalir,2009) (pdf)
Genetic Studies
- L Andonian, S Rezaie, A Margaryan, DD Farhud, K Mohammad1, K Holakouie Naieni, MR Khorramizadeh, M H Sanati, M Jamali, P Bayatian1, L Yepiskoposyan (2011). Iranian Azeri’s Y-Chromosomal Diversity in the Context of Turkish-Speaking Populations of the Middle East. Iranian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 40, No.1, 2011, pp.119-127. (pdf)
- International journal of immunogenetics (2007): Iranian Azaris show Iranian DNA profile similar to Kurds
- Yepiskoposian, Levon; Margarian, Shot; Andonian, Laris; Rashidvash, Vahid (2011). The Location of Azaris on the Patrilineal Genetic Landscape of the Middle East (A Preliminary Report). Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2, pp. 73-78(6).
