1. Outside of Europe, the range extends over western Turkey, east to Transcaucasia.

2. Azerbaijan definition, a republic in Transcaucasia, N of Iran and W of the Caspian Sea

3. Azerbaijan, also spelled Azerbaidzhan, officially Azerbaijani Republic, Azerbaijani Azärbayjan Respublikasi, country of eastern Transcaucasia

4. Transcaucasia was in fact the base from which Cimmerian troops marched, probably until the beginning of the reign of Aššurbanipal (668-ca

5. Caravansary an inn and trading post for caravans along the roads in the cities of Southwest Asia, Middle Asia, and Transcaucasia

6. Caucasian languages, group of languages indigenous to Transcaucasia and adjacent areas of the Caucasus region, between the Black and Caspian seas

7. R1b could be a Brachycephal tribe from central asia origin ( mongoloid Brachycephal ) and let that physical stock for exemple in transcaucasia ( where it became, armenid ) and later evolved physicaly in pontic steppe, with mixing with other population.

8. Ethnic Azerbaijanis combine in themselves the dominant Turkic strain, which arrived in Azerbaijan especially during the Oghuz Seljuq migrations of the 11th century, with mixtures of older inhabitants—Iranians and others—who had lived in Transcaucasia since ancient times.