What is the old name of Azerbaijan?

Answer 1

this new name republic of azerbaijan at the time of persian empire was known by the documented books and archiological evidence as albania of cacausus or kafkaz, latter it became called aran and from the year 1918 by the turk and then by bulshovi of russia was named azerbaijan for the political purpose by which to occupy the real azarbaijan which is an iranian state in north of iran,this new republic of azerbaijan is a new country, the name came from pahlavi language of ancient irania, azar or azer means fire linguisticly it has changed from aturpadgan to aturbaigan and to the azarbaigan and finaly azerbaijan . since the time of invading iran by arabs the letter g changed to j since arabs do not have the letter g. please look at the historical books of ancient and old writers of greekland, roman, armenian, russian,iranian and arabs,one of the most important books of ancient time is the geography of strabon