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First Lady of Azerbaijan

spouse of the President of Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ20556824 ↗
Source-derived summary

First Lady of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycanın birinci xanımı) is the informal title of the wife of the president of Azerbaijan. The current first lady, since 31 October 2003, is Mehriban Aliyeva, wife of President Ilham Aliyev.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “First Lady of Azerbaijan” is spouse of the President of Azerbaijan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through First, Lady and Azerbaijan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-08-30. For this dossier, First, Lady and Azerbaijan is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “spouse of the President of Azerbaijan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20556824. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “First Lady of Azerbaijan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.