Nakhchivan

Naxcivan is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan, The area covers 5,500 km2 with a populace of 414,900, bordering Armenia to the east and north, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey border eight km to the northwest. The area that is now Nakhchivan became a part of the Safavid dynasty of Iran inside the 16th century. In 1828, after the remaining Russo-Persian War and the Treaty of Turkmenchay, the Nakhchivan Khanate passed from Iranian into Imperial Russian possession. The oldest cloth subculture artifacts located in the area date again to the Neolithic Age. On the opposite hand, Azerbaijani archaeologists have located that the history of Nakhchivan dates again to the Stone Age Paleolithic.

As a end result of archaeological diggings, archaeologists located a top notch variety of Stone-Age materials in exceptional regions of Nakhchivan. These materials had been beneficial to examine the Paleolithic age in Azerbaijan. Pollen analysis performed in Gazma Cave Sharur District indicates that people in the Middle Palaeolithic Mousterian lived no longer simplest inside the mountain forests however also inside the dry woodlands located in Nakhchivan. Several archeological sites from the dating from the Neolithic have additionally been observed in Nakhchivan, which include the historic town of Ovchular Tepesi, which additionally includes a number of the oldest salt mines within the world.