Akinchi
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Akinchi, also transliterated as Ekinchi, was the first Azerbaijani-language newspaper, published in Baku between 1875 and 1877. It was the first newspaper fully printed in Azerbaijani, as well as the
Front page of Akinchi, 1875, No. 1
Molla Nasraddin (magazine)
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Molla Nasraddin was an eight-page Azerbaijani satirical periodical published in Tiflis, Tabriz and Baku. From the second issue of 1931, the magazine was called Allahsyz in the Azerbaijani and occasion
Akinchi
…magazines such as Ziya (in 1879), Ziya Gafgaziya (in 1880), Keshkul (in 1883), Sharg-i rus (in 1903), Irshad, Hayat (both in 1905), Fiyuzat, Takammul and Molla Nasraddin (all in 1906) after which the Azeri press entered a new stage of development. 22 July, the day of the first publication of Akinchi, was declared in…
Molla Nasraddin #22 (c. 1910)
In a 1910 cartoon in Molla Nasraddin Europe and Japan are prosperous and developed while the rest of Asia, the Middle East and Africa are lands of slackers and oppressed lower classes. Caption: "The state of the continents in the twentieth century."
Russian Second Duma member Mustafa Mahmudov (second from right) displaying Molla Nasraddin