Nakhchivan: The enigmatic land of Azerbaijan
Another day, another exclave. This time, I am in the southern part of the Caucasus, in the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhchivan (spelled Naxcivan in Azerbaijani). This autonomous republic is surrounded by Armenia in the north and east, by Türkiye in the west and by Iran in the southwest. For a while in the 1920s, it was …