THE FOUNDING OF THE AZERBAIJAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AND ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW WITHIN AZERBAIJANI TERRITORY: TOPONYM OF AZERBAIJAN

Abstract

The article clarifies the status of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in terms of the components outlined in Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, which expresses the generally recognized features of a state. Addressing the issues concerning the territory of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, its population, government, and their status as subjects of the international law requires analysing the emergence of the notion of “Azerbaijan”, as well as the country’s geographic, historical, and political context. It is vital to review the history of preceding states of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic while determining the status of that state. The relevance of the study derives from the problem of specifying the status of newly formed states as subjects of international law in the contemporary world.
In the article, historical and legal study is accomplished, which aims at examining the stages of the formation of civil justice, and legislation of different epochs in the territory of Azerbaijan; the comparative legal method enabled the analysis of foreign legislation in view of identifying the main principles of normative regulation of civil procedural actions.
The result of the study is that since the declaration of independence on May 28, 1918, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic has controlled this heritage. The authority of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the subjectivity of the international law were both conditioned by the population (nation) element and expressed in the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Responsibilities of States on the universally recognized characteristics of states. The novelty of the research lies in the detailed analysis of the status of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the system of international relations. The author comes to the conclusion that the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic possesses the indispensable features of belonging to an independent state: the territory, the population living on it, the government and international relations established with a number of countries.