Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete form of Azerbaijan.
Borshch is unknown in the Caucasus, the home of shashlik, and even the way of making shashlik varies from one valley to another in the three Caucasian republics, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaidzhan.
1967, Barbara Norman, “The Ten Cuisines of Russia”, in The Russian Cookbook […], New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41 more example
The 1971 legislation added a new form of income, profits from enterprises of Republic subordination. In 1975, 538.4 million roubles from such enterprises were transferred to city budgets. This comprised 2.6 per cent of the regulated income of cities in the USSR, while for city budgets in the Ukraine and Azerbaidzhan it reached 9.8 per cent and 13.6 per cent respectively.
1987, Cameron Ross, “Local Budgets in the Soviet Union”, in Local Government in the Soviet Union: Problems of Implementation and Control, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 86
Origin
Transliteration of Russian Азербайджа́н (Azerbajdžán).
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