Saturday, 7 October 2023

From Sasanian Adurbadagan to Modern Azerbaijan: Historical Background and Developments | Chapter 8 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 9

 The author argues the historical education of the origin of up-to-date Azerbaijan divided apiece Araz river into pertaining to the south or Iranian and northern or the free Republic of Azerbaijan. The author analyzes the use of the Sasanian name Adurbadagan to both hands of modern Azerbaijan. He trusts that the name Azerbaijan originates from the Avestan conversation Atash or Atar or Azar that means fire. As a factual and political term, Azerbaijan ancestries deep to Achaemenids’ Aturpatakan (Atropatena) evolving into the Sasanian Adurbadagan - a Zoroastrian center of the rule. Since late Antiquity, Adurbadagan’s military and administrative functions were comprehensive and applied apiece Sasanids to all lands in the north from the Aras waterway, up to Darband stronghold in Arran (Albania) in Caucasia. The author argue, because late Antiquity, Adurbadagan and Arran became identical names in the northern bank of the Araz waterway. In the Islamic period, specifically after Seljuk Turks victory of Iran, Adurbadagan evolved into the Turkified form of Azarbadajan or Azerbaijan, sealing the modern Azerbaijani Turks’ correspondence in the south and northward sides of the complete Azerbaijan divided for one Araxes.

Author(s) Details:

Mahir Khalifa-Zadeh,
Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada and Azerbaijan in Global Context, Media and Analysis Centre, Toronto, Canada.

Leyla Khalifazadeh,
Don Mills Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Canada.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RTASS-V9/article/view/12120

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