FC Shahdagh also was among 26 participating teams at first football championship of independent Azerbaijan.

In 1919, he returned to then independent Azerbaijan to read lectures at the newly-established Azerbaijan State University.

Seven years ago, a newly independent Azerbaijan emerged from the collapsing Soviet Union.

Opposition figures question whether an independent Azerbaijan under Mr. Mutalibov would be a democratic paradise.

Flora Karimova thus became the first singer in the history of independent Azerbaijan to be awarded this title.

But unlike its predecessor, it consisted of five stages, and became the first professional cycle event in the history of independent Azerbaijan.

In his views published postmortem in 2002, he opposed the idea of a separate and independent Iranian Azerbaijan.

Heydar Aliyev's Museum: a personality cult shrine' to independent Azerbaijan's first ruler.

Early in 1920, he was invited by the government of independent Azerbaijan to head a military school at Ganja.

In 1991, it became a part of independent Azerbaijan.