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AZERBAIJAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
Synonyms:
Azerbaijan; Azerbaijani Republic; Azerbajdzhan; Azerbajdzhan Republic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Azerbaijan"):
Baku; capital of Azerbaijan (a port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production)
Domain member region:
Jayshullah (an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999)
Holonyms ("Azerbaijan" is a part of...):
Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)
Holonyms ("Azerbaijan" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
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