Azerbaijan is one of the three South Caucasus countries, Armenia and Georgia being the others. We traveled here in September 2019, and stayed some two weeks. The locations at the bottom of the pag are those of the travel blog we maintained.

The entire first South Caucasus blog, covering Azerbaijan and the eastern part of Georgia (but not Armenia), including the ‘in between’ entries, can be accessed here.

There is a Caucasus reading list, although not with much on Azerbaijan.

Baku
modern city with fascinating architecture
Old Baku
Icarisahar, or old town, a maze of up-and-down alleys
around Baku
petroglyphs, mud volcanoes and derelict oil fields
Quba & Xinaliq
drab Quba and picturesque Xinaliq
Nakhchivan, the city
a surreal city, capital of the enclave
Nakhchivan, the country
touristic highlights of the enclave
Sheki
18th C palaces, churches and caravanserais
Zaqatala
unpretentious town, but with a nuts festival!