Baku

باكو

Capital of Azerbaijan on the Caspian's Absheron peninsula; the medieval Shirvanshah walled city, later an oil-boom town of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union.

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Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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Place of death of
Bekir Çoban-zade· Hamida Javanshir· Hasan bey Zardabi· Jalil Mammadguluzadeh· Murtuza Mukhtarov· Shukrullah al-Khalwati
Birthplace of
Mir Mahammad Karim Mirjafarzadeh· Murtuza Mukhtarov· Shamsi Asadullayev
Site of
Battle of Baku

People and things also explored

Alley of Honor· Hamida Javanshir· Jalil Mammadguluzadeh· Böyük Kəhrizli· Bilohirsk· Chemberekend Cemetery· Nakhchivan· Shirvan

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Baku”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/baku/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Alley of Honor

Site in Azerbaijan.