Although Baku is not a high risk area for earthquakes, it does come across extreme temperatures. The winters are cold with bad winds and little rain, whereas the summers bring a harsh flood of mosquitoes and flies. .
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Azerbaijan has always relied on imports for raw materials, most coming from the previous Soviet republics. The food industry in Azerbaijan in the year 1991, had 31 percent total industrial production. Light industry had 19 percent, energy industry had 12 percent, and the machine building had 2 percent. Wine making controls the food industry of Azerbaijan, taking up about 50 percent. A city in Azerbaijan just north of Baku, Sumgait, is the nations core for steel, iron, and other metal related industries. Soviet-era Azerbaijan Oil Machinery Company controls all of the countries oil tools for industry. .
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The main part of Baku's economy is petroleum, it is also its biggest export, this city ranks as one of the biggest places in the production of oil industry equipment. The vast economy of Azerbaijan is founded on the use of many mineral resources. Along with oil and gas, a great amount of iron ore, zinc ore, rock salt, gypsum, lime stone, clay and marble are used in industrial use. Early in the 1990s economic production dropped significantly. Archeologists have found evidence that shows Baku was once an ancient settlement. During the 11th century Persia controlled this land, and through the 13th and 14th centuries Baku was taken captive by the Mongols. In the year 1723, Peter I the Great of Russia seized the land but returned it to the Persians. Russia captured the area in 1806, and it became the capital of Azerbaijan in 1920. .
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Azerbaijan's government is based on the separation of powers between its three branches. The Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan establishes this type of government, and it is also the highest law in the country. The legislative branches run by the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
