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:: Baku
The city is situated in the south-western part of the Absheron peninsula. Its main houses and administrative buildings are located in an amphitheatre manner along the picturesque bay of the Caspian Sea. The climate is dry, subtropical of the Mediterranean type. Scientists date the first settlements back to the 2nd millennium B.C. The first mentioning of Baku as a city was found in Arab manuscripts of the 8th century A.D.
:: Ganja
One of the most ancient towns of Azerbaijan (founded in IV century B.C.) is the second important city in the Republic.Here were born Nizami Ganjevi, the great poet and philosopher of Mideval Orient, Mehseti Khanum (XII c.) the first woman-poet of Azerbaijan.
:: Gobustan
It is a volcanic desert of south-west of Baku along the Caspian shore. Here you will see rock drawings made by ancient people who used to live there in caves more than ten thousand years ago.
:: Guba
This town is situated 170 kilometers to the North from Baku in the north-eastern part of the Major Caucasus Mountains Chain (with Shahdag mountain as the highest peak of 4243 meters), at the bank of the Kudyal-Chay river.
:: Lenkoran
Lenkoran is the biggest town in the south-eastern part of Azerbaijan (300 kilometers from Baku) located at the coast of the Caspian Sea. Previously Lenkoran for several centuries was the center of another Azeri duchy (Talish Khanate).
:: Shamakhi
The ancient town Shamakhi is situated at 800 m. over the sea level height on the southern slopes of the Major Caucasus. Founded in the 6th century A.D., the city became the capital of the rulers of the influential and powerful principality of Shirvan.
:: Sheki
One of the most ancient settlements and cultural centers of Azerbaijan, Sheki was founded more than 2700 years ago at the southern slopes of the Major Caucasus Mountains Chain (370 kilometers to the north-west from Baku).
The city is situated in the south-western part of the Absheron peninsula. Its main houses and administrative buildings are located in an amphitheatre manner along the picturesque bay of the Caspian Sea. The climate is dry, subtropical of the Mediterranean type. Scientists date the first settlements back to the 2nd millennium B.C. The first mentioning of Baku as a city was found in Arab manuscripts of the 8th century A.D.
:: Ganja
One of the most ancient towns of Azerbaijan (founded in IV century B.C.) is the second important city in the Republic.Here were born Nizami Ganjevi, the great poet and philosopher of Mideval Orient, Mehseti Khanum (XII c.) the first woman-poet of Azerbaijan.
:: Gobustan
It is a volcanic desert of south-west of Baku along the Caspian shore. Here you will see rock drawings made by ancient people who used to live there in caves more than ten thousand years ago.
:: Guba
This town is situated 170 kilometers to the North from Baku in the north-eastern part of the Major Caucasus Mountains Chain (with Shahdag mountain as the highest peak of 4243 meters), at the bank of the Kudyal-Chay river.
:: Lenkoran
Lenkoran is the biggest town in the south-eastern part of Azerbaijan (300 kilometers from Baku) located at the coast of the Caspian Sea. Previously Lenkoran for several centuries was the center of another Azeri duchy (Talish Khanate).
:: Shamakhi
The ancient town Shamakhi is situated at 800 m. over the sea level height on the southern slopes of the Major Caucasus. Founded in the 6th century A.D., the city became the capital of the rulers of the influential and powerful principality of Shirvan.
:: Sheki
One of the most ancient settlements and cultural centers of Azerbaijan, Sheki was founded more than 2700 years ago at the southern slopes of the Major Caucasus Mountains Chain (370 kilometers to the north-west from Baku).
