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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus – Azerbaijan

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The Republic of Azerbaijan is located in the southeastern part of the Caucasus between 38°25′–41°55′, northern latitudes and 44°50′–50°51′ east longitudes at the crossroads of eastern Europe and south-west Asia. The mountains of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus occupy more than a half of the territory of Azerbaijan. The country is bordered by the Talysh Mountains in the south and by the Caspian Sea in the east. It is the largest country in the southern Caucasus (86,600 km2), with a population of about 10 million. The extent of the territory from the north to the south is about 400 km, from the west to the east 500 km, with a coastline of 955 km (Fig. 1), and its altitude range 30 m below sea level to 4466 m (Mt. Bazarduzu).

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  1. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva, Valida M. Alizade & Esmira H. Alirzayeva

  2. Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Ibrahim S. Guliyev

  3. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Mehdiyeva, N.P., Guliyev, I.S., Alizade, V.M., Alirzayeva, E.H., Bussmann, R.W. (2017). Ethnobotany of the Caucasus – Azerbaijan. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_16

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