Azarbaijan

• 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)

Arran, Albania and the Transcaucasian Khanates (Modern Republic of Azarbaijan)

• 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)
• Farroukh Aliev: Fire Temple (Atashgah) of Baku rooted in Sassanian Era
• Farroukh Aliev: Zoroastrian Toponyms in the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Taleshzamin Website: -پیشنهاد تغییر نام جمهوری آذربایجان به « جمهوری آذربایجان شمالی – Proposal to re-name Republic of Azarbaijan as “North Azarbaijan”.

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

• Shaname Tribute to the Ancient Iranian Legacy of Azarabadegan or Azarbaijan

• 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

• -سفینه تبریز بزرگترین کشف معاصر تاریخی ایران و آذربایجان-The safina Tabriz: the most important recent discovery regarding the history of Iran and Azarbaijan

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 Margaryan3, DD Farhud4, K Mohammad1, K Holakouie Naieni1,MR Khorramizadeh, M H Sanati, M Jamali8, 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).