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Ganja Khanate
Populated places established in the 9th century
Populated places in Azerbaijan

Abbas the Great

Abbas I (translit; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (translit), was the fifth shah of Safavid Iran from 1588 to 1629.

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Abram Alikhanov

Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov (Абрам Исаакович Алиханов, born Alikhanian; 8 December 1970) was a Soviet Armenian experimental physicist who specialized in particle and nuclear physics.

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Adurbadagan

Adurbadagan (Middle Persian: Ādurbādagān/Āδarbāyagān, Parthian: Āturpātākān) was a Sasanian province located in northern Iran, almost corresponded to the present-day Iranian Azerbaijan.

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The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly referred to as Afsharid Iran or the Afsharid Empire, was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, establishing the Afsharid dynasty that would rule over Iran during the mid-eighteenth century.

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Akhalkalaki

Akhalkalaki (tr; translit) is a town in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe–Javakheti and the administrative centre of the Akhalkalaki Municipality.

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Aksaray

Aksaray (Koine Greek: Ἀρχελαΐς Arhelays, Medieval Greek: Κολώνεια Koloneia, Ancient Greek: Γαρσάουρα Garsaura) is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.

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Al-Mutawakkil

Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Harun (translit); March 82211 December 861, commonly known by his regnal name al-Mutawwakil ala Allah (lit), was the tenth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 847 until his assassination in 861.

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Albert Azaryan

Albert Azaryan (Ալբերտ Ազարյան; 11 February 1929 – 5 September 2023) was a Soviet and Armenian artistic gymnast who competed internationally representing the Soviet Union.

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Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I (–), nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death in 1825.

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Alexander Nevsky Church, Ganja

The Alexander Nevsky Church (Aleksandr Nevski kilsəsi, Александро-Невская церковь) is a Russian Orthodox church in Ganja (Azerbaijan), built in 1887.

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Ancient Gates of Ganja

The Ancient Gates of Ganja were a masterpiece of craftsmanship of the 10th to 11th centuries.

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Aq Qoyunlu

The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (Ağqoyunlular) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750, (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (White Sheep) (1378–1507) and Qaraoyunlu (Black Sheep).

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Arbiter (chess)

In chess tournaments, an arbiter is an official who oversees matches and ensures that the rules of chess are followed.

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Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.

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Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Middle Armenian: Կիլիկիոյ Հայոց Թագաւորութիւն), also known as Cilician Armenia (Կիլիկեան Հայաստան,, Հայկական Կիլիկիա), Lesser Armenia, Little Armenia or New Armenia, and formerly known as the Armenian Principality of Cilicia (Կիլիկիայի հայկական իշխանութիւն), was an Armenian state formed during the High Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia.

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Armenian language

Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family.

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Armenian National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) (Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri azgayin akademia) is the Armenian national academy, functioning as the primary body that conducts research and coordinates activities in the fields of science and social sciences in Armenia.

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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia (also rendered Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia; Հայկական սովետական հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran; ASE) is the first general encyclopedia in Armenian language.

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Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907

The Armenian–Tatar massacres (also known as the Armenian–Tartar war, the Armenian–Muslim war) was the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between Armenians and Caucasian Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis) throughout the Russian Caucasus in 1905–1907.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Armenpress

Armenpress (Armenian Press; Արմենպրես) is the oldest and the main state news agency in Armenia.

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Arran (Caucasus)

Arran (Middle Persian form; Persian: اران or اردان), also known as Aran or Ardan, was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify a historically-Iranian region which lay within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh, Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain.

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Artem Alikhanian

Artem Alikhanian (Արտեմ Ալիխանյան, Артём Исаакович Алиханьян, 24 June 1908 – 25 February 1978) was a Soviet and Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), academic of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.

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Artur Rasizade

Artur Tahir oghlu Rasizade (Artur Tahir oğlu Rasizadə; born 26 February 1935) is an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from 1996 until 2018 under the authoritarian regimes of Heydar Aliyev and his son Ilham Aliyev.

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Askanaz Mravyan

Askanaz Harutyuni Mravyan (Ասքանազ Հարությունի Մռավյան, – October 23, 1929) was a Soviet Armenian statesman and political activist.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic, was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds.

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Azerbaijan First League

The Azerbaijan First League (I Liqa) is the second highest professional division in Azerbaijani professional football.

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Azerbaijan Premier League

The Azerbaijan Premier League (Azərbaycan Premyer Liqası), also known as Misli Premyer Liqası (for sponsorship reasons) is the top Azerbaijani professional league for men's association football teams.

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The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, also referred to as the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijani SSR, AzSSR, Soviet Azerbaijan or simply Azerbaijan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991.

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Azerbaijan State Agricultural University

Azerbaijan State Agricultural University (Azərbaycan Dövlət Aqrar Universiteti, literally "Azerbaijan State Agricultural University"), also referred to as the Azerbaijan State Agricultural University (Az. AA), is a public university located in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Azerbaijan Teachers' Institute

The Azerbaijan Teachers` Institute (Azərbaycan Müəllimlər İnstitutu) is a higher educational institution that provides training, retraining, and advanced training for teachers.

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Azerbaijan Technological University

The Azerbaijan Technological University (Azərbaycan Texnologiya Universiteti) recognizes the importance of working with other international organizations to achieve a sustainable future and, therefore employs an array of methods to meet its strategic goals.

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Azerbaijan Time

Azerbaijan Time (Azərbaycanda vaxt), abbreviated as AZT, is the standard time zone in Azerbaijan, four hours ahead of UTC (UTC+04:00).

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Aziz Seyidov

Aziz Jafar oglu Seyidov (Azerbaijani: Əziz Cəfər oğlu Seyidov) (born 6 October 1956) is the Justice of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

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Baku

Baku (Bakı) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Baku are districts of Azerbaijan.

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Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway

The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK), or Baku–Tbilisi–Akhalkalaki–Kars railway (BTAK), is a railway connecting Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, which became operational on 30 October 2017 following several years of delays.

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Bombardment

A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or cities and buildings.

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Bottle house of Ganja

Bottle House is an unusual private residence in Ganja built from glass bottles.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary (abbr.; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Census in Azerbaijan

The census in Azerbaijan is a process of collecting, summarizing, analyzing and publishing the demographic, economic and social data of the population living in the territory of Azerbaijan.

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Centrocaspian Dictatorship

The Centro-Caspian Dictatorship, also known as the Central-Caspian Dictatorship (Диктатура Центрокаспия, Diktatura Tsentrokaspiya) (Azerbaijani: Sentrokaspi Diktaturası), was a short-lived anti-Soviet administration proclaimed in the city of Baku during World War I. Created from an alliance of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Mensheviks, it replaced the Baku Commune in the bloodless July 26 Baku Coup d'état of 1918, and fell on 15 September 1918, when a coalition of Ottoman-Azerbaijani forces captured Baku.

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Chokak Hamam

Chokak Hamam (Çökək hamam, "fallen bath") is a historical bath near Juma Mosque in Ganja.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Cilicia

Cilicia is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union)

The Communist Party of Armenia (Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն, Коммунистическая партия Армении) was a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union within the Armenian SSR, and as such, the sole ruling party in the Armenian SSR.

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Demetrius I of Georgia

Demetrius I (tr) (1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King (mepe) of Georgia from 1125 to 1156.

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Derbent

Derbent (Дербе́нт; Кьвевар, Цал; Dərbənd; Дербенд), formerly romanized as Derbend, is a city in Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea.

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Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes.

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Earth Hour

Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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Economic regions of Azerbaijan

Economic regions of Azerbaijan are 14 regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan characterized by a certain economic and geographical position, territorial and economic unity, the diversity of natural and economic conditions and industrial specialization.

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Eldiguzids

The Ildegizids, EldiguzidsC.E. Bosworth, "Ildenizids or Eldiguzids", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Edited by P.J. Bearman, Th.

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Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden)

Elizabeth Alexeievna (Елизавета Алексеевна; –), born Princess Louise of Baden (Luise Marie Auguste von Baden), was Empress of Russia during her marriage to Emperor Alexander I.

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Elizavetpol Governorate

The Elizavetpol Governorate, also known after 1918 as the Ganja Governorate, was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yelisavetpol (present-day Ganja).

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Elizavetpol uezd

The Elizavetpol uezd, also known as the Ganja uezd after 1918, was a county (uezd) of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire, and later of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan SSR until its formal abolition in 1929.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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European Youth Capital

The European Youth Capital (abbreviated EYC) is the title awarded by the European Youth Forum to a European city, designed to empower young people, boost youth participation and strengthen European identity through projects focused on youth-related cultural, social, political and economic life and development.

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European Youth Forum

The European Youth Forum (from Youth Forum Jeunesse, YFJ) is an international non-profit association that serves as an umbrella organisation and advocacy group of the national youth councils and international non-governmental youth organisations in Europe.

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Faiq Hasanov

Faiq Hasanov (transliterated as Gasanov; Faiq Həsənov; born April 13, 1940, in Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani chess International Arbiter (1980), coach, television presenter, author and vice-president of Azerbaijan Chess Federation.

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Farid Alakbarli

Farid Alakbarli (Fərid Ələkbərli; 3 January 1964 – 7 April 2021) was an Azerbaijani scholar, PhD and professor in history, specialist in the field of history of science, culturology, and medieval medical manuscripts, the head of Department of Information and Translation of the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, president of the Azerbaijan Association of Medical Historians (AAMH), National Delegate from Azerbaijan to International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM), author of more than 200 scientific and educational works including 23 books and booklets in Azeri Turkish, Russian, English, German and Italian.

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Fikret Amirov

Fikret Mashadi Jamil oghlu Amirov (Fikrət Məşədi Cəmil oğlu Əmirov; November 22, 1922, Ganja – February 20, 1984, Baku) was a prominent Soviet and Azerbaijani composer.

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Firuddin Babayev

Firuddin Ali Babayev (Firuddin Əli oğlu Babayev) (1 May 1929 – 22 June 1987) was an internationally known Azerbaijani and Soviet scientist, Azerbaijan's first professor of plant pathology, doctor of biological sciences.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment such as wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature.

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Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling.

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Ganja Auto Plant

Ganja Auto Plant (Gəncə Avtomobil Zavodu) is an auto assembly plant situated in the Ganja city in Azerbaijan.

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Ganja City Stadium

Ganja City Stadium is located in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Ganja International Airport

Ganja International Airport (Gəncə Beynəlxalq Hava Limanı) is an airport serving Ganja from DAFIF (effective October 2006) (also known as Gyandzha), the second-largest city in Azerbaijan.

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Ganja Khanate

The Ganja Khanate (also spelled Ganjeh; خانات گنجه|translit.

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Ganja Mall

Ganja Mall is a shopping mall located in Ganja, and it's the largest mall in the city.

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Ganja rugs

Ganja rugs or Geunge rugs are a category of Caucasian rug from the town of Gəncə, Azerbaijan, also written Geunge, Gendje or Ganja.

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Ganja State Philharmonic Hall

Ganja State Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Ganja State University

Ganja State University (GDU, Azerbaijani: Gəncə Dövlət Universiteti) is a public university in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Ganja-Dashkasan Economic Region

Ganja-Dashkasan Economic Region (Gəncə-Daşkəsən iqtisadi rayonu) is one of the 14 economic regions of Azerbaijan.

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Ganzak

Ganzak (گنزک Ganzak, Γάζακα Gazaka, Latin: Gaza, Gazaca, Ganzaga, Arabic: جانزاك Janzaq, جازنا Jazna, Գանձակ Gandzak), is an ancient town founded in northwestern Iran.

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Göygöl (lake)

Göygöl is a natural impounded lake in Azerbaijan.

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Göygöl National Park

Göygöl National Park (Göygöl Milli Parkı) — is a national park of Azerbaijan.

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Geomorphology

Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek:,, 'earth';,, 'form'; and,, 'study') is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earth's surface.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Georgia Governorate

The Georgian Governorate (Грузинская губерния; საქართველოს გუბერნია) was one of the guberniyas of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire.

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Georgia within the Russian Empire

The country of Georgia became part of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.

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Georgia-Imeretia Governorate

Georgia-Imeretia Governorate (Грузино-Имеретинская губерния, საქართველო-იმერეთის გუბერნია) was a short-lived governorate (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, administered from Tiflis (Tbilisi).

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Georgians

The Georgians, or Kartvelians (tr), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms.

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Great Russian Encyclopedia

The Great Russian Encyclopedia (GRE; Большая российская энциклопедия, БРЭ, transliterated as Bolshaya rossiyskaya entsiklopediya or academically as Bol'šaja rossijskaja ènciklopedija) is a universal Russian encyclopedia, completed in 36 volumes, published between 2004 and 2017 by Great Russian Encyclopedia, JSC (Большая российская энциклопедия ПАО, transliterated as Bolshaya rossiyskaya entsiklopediya PAO).

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Great Soviet Encyclopedia

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.

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Grigor Paron-Ter

Grigor Paron-Ter (Գրիգոր Պարոն-Տեր), was the Armenian Patricarch of Jerusalem; He reigned from 1613 to 1645.

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Hacıkənd (Ganja)

Hajikend is a town in the administrative-territorial unit of Kapaz raion of Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Hacıkənd, Goygol

Hacıkənd (also, Hajikend) is a village in the Goygol District of Azerbaijan.

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Hamdallah Mustawfi

Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini (Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet.

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Hasan bey Aghayev

Hasan bey Mashadi Huseyn bey oghlu Aghayev (label; 1875 – 1920), known also as Hasan bey Aghayev and Hasan bey Aghazade was an Azerbaijani public figure, journalist, medical doctor, teacher and politician.

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Hasan bey Zardabi

Hasan bey Zardabi (Həsən bəy Zərdabi), born Hasan bey Salim bey oghlu Malikov (Həsən bəy Səlim bəy oğlu Məlikov; 28 June 1842 — 15 November 1907), was an Azerbaijani journalist and intellectual, founder of the first Azerbaijani language newspaper Akinchi ("The Ploughman") in 1875.

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Hethumids

The Hethumids (Հեթումյաններ Hethumian) (also spelled Hetoumids or Het'umids), also known as the House of Lampron (after Lampron castle), were an Armenian dynasty and the rulers of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1226 to 1341.

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Heydar Aliyev Park, Ganja

The Heydar Aliyev Park Complex is the largest urban park in Ganja, Azerbaijan located on an area of 450 hectares.

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Ibn Khosrov al-Ustad

Abu Bakr Ibn Khosrov al-Ustad was an author living in Ganja in the middle of the 12th century.

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Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev (İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev; born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician who is the fourth and current president of Azerbaijan.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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Imamzadeh (Ganja)

Imamzadeh Mausoleum or Goy Imam Mosque (İmamzadə türbəsi) is located 7 km northward to Ganja.

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Internally displaced person

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iranian languages

The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.

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Javad Khan

Javad Khan Qajar; c. 1748 – 1804) was a member of Ziyadoghlu Qajar, a clan of the Qajar tribe, as well as the sixth and the last khan of the Ganja Khanate from 1786 to 1804 before it was lost to Russia.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Juma Mosque, Ganja

Juma Mosque of Ganja (Cümə məscidi) or Friday Mosque of Ganja is a mosque located in the centre of Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Kapaz PFK

Kapaz PFK (Kəpəz Peşəkar Futbol Klubu), is an Azerbaijani football club based in Ganja, which competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League, the highest tier of Azerbaijan football.

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Kapaz, Ganja

Kapaz raion is a settlement and raion of Ganja, Azerbaijan. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Kapaz, Ganja are districts of Azerbaijan.

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Karo Halabyan

Karo Semyonovich Halabyan (Каро Семёнович Алабян; Կարո Հալաբյան; 26 July 1897 – 5 January 1959) was a Soviet Armenian architect.

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Kars

Kars (or; Qars; Qers) is a city in northeast Turkey.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Khazars

The Khazars were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th-century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.

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Khwarazmian Empire

The Khwarazmian Empire, also called the Empire of the Khwarazmshahs or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin.

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Kingdom of Georgia

The Kingdom of Georgia (Georgian: ⴑⴀⴕⴀⴐⴇⴅⴄⴊⴍⴑ ⴑⴀⴋⴄⴔⴍ), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a medieval Eurasian monarchy that was founded in AD.

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Kirakos Gandzaketsi

Kirakos Gandzaketsi (c. 1200/1202–1271) was an Armenian historian of the 13th centuryS. Peter Cowe.

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Kirovabad pogrom

The Kirovabad pogrom or the pogrom of Kirovabad was an Azeri-led ethnic cleansing that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November 1988.

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Kutaisi

Kutaisi (ქუთაისი) is a city in the Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia.

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Lankaran

Lankaran (Lənkəran,, script) is a city in Azerbaijan, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, near the southern border with Iran. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Lankaran are districts of Azerbaijan.

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Lezgins

Lezgins (Лезгияр lezgijar) are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native predominantly to southern Dagestan, a republic of Russia, and northeastern Azerbaijan, and speak the Lezgin language.

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List of Armenian patriarchs of Jerusalem

In 638, the Armenian Apostolic Church began appointing its own bishop in Jerusalem, generally known as the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.

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List of cities in Azerbaijan

This is a list of cities in Azerbaijan. Ganja, Azerbaijan and list of cities in Azerbaijan are Populated places in Azerbaijan.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Lutheran church (Ganja)

Sts.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Mahmud Qurbanov

Makhmud Gurbanov (Mahmud Qurbanov; born 10 May 1973) is a football midfielder from Azerbaijan.

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Mahsati

Mahsati (Mahsati) was a medieval Persian female poet who was reportedly one of the first poets to compose ruba'iyat (quatrains) in her native language.

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Maralgöl

Maralgöl is a mountainous lake at an elevation of on Mount Murovdag in western Azerbaijan.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Mingachevir

Mingachevir (Mingəçevir) is the fourth largest city in Azerbaijan with a population of about 106,000. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Mingachevir are districts of Azerbaijan and Populated places in Azerbaijan.

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Ministry of Defence of Armenia

The Ministry of Defence of Armenia (Հայաստանի պաշտպանության նախարարություն) often abbreviated to the RA Ministry of Defence is an Armenian governmental agency in charge of overseeing the development of the Armed Forces of Armenia.

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Ministry of Transportation (Azerbaijan)

The Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikasının Nəqliyyat Nazirliyi) was a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of regulating transportation sector in Azerbaijan Republic.

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Mirali Qashqai

Mirali Seyidali oglu Qashqai (Mirəli Seyidəli oğlu Qaşqay; January 20, 1907 – April 23, 1977), was an eminent Azerbaijani and Soviet geologist, author of multitude works in the sphere of geomorphology and stratigraphy.

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Mirza Shafi Vazeh

Mirza Shafi Vazeh (Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh; italic; died 16 November 1852) was an Azerbaijani poet and teacher.

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Mkhitar Gosh

Mkhitar Gosh (translit 1130–1213) was an Armenian scholar, writer, public figure, thinker, and priest.

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Mongols

The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mount Kapaz

The Mount Kapaz or Kepez (Kəpəz dağı) is a mountain in Lesser Caucasus near Ganja city in central Azerbaijan.

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Movses Kaghankatvatsi

Movses Kaghankatvatsi (Մովսէս Կաղանկատուացի 'Moses of Kaghankatuk'), or Movses Daskhurantsi (Մովսէս Դասխուրանցի 'Moses of Daskhuran), is the reputed author (or the alias of several authors) of a tenth-century Classical Armenian historical work on Caucasian Albania and the eastern provinces of Armenia, known as The History of the Country of Albania (Պատմութիւն Աղուանից Աշխարհի).

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Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani

Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani (محمد بن خالد بن يزيد الشيباني) was an Arab general and governor for the Abbasid Caliphate, active in the Caliphate's Caucasian provinces in the 9th century.

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Nader Shah

Nader Shah Afshar (نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a rebellion.

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Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh is a region in Azerbaijan, covering the southeastern stretch of the Lesser Caucasus mountain range.

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Nakharar

Nakharar (նախարար naxarar, from Parthian naxvadār "holder of the primacy") was a hereditary title of the highest order given to houses of the ancient and medieval Armenian nobility.

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Nakhchivan (city)

Nakhchivan (Naxçıvan; Nakhijevan) is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a true exclave of Azerbaijan, located west of Baku. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan (city) are districts of Azerbaijan and Populated places in Azerbaijan.

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Nasib bey Yusifbeyli

Nasib bey Yusif bey oghlu Yusifbeyli (Nəsib bəy Yusif bəy oğlu Yusifbəyli) or Usubbeyov (Usubbəyov; 5 July 1881 – 31 May 1920) Azerbaijani publicist, statesman and major political figure in Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

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New Persian

New Persian (translit), also known as Modern Persian (فارسی نوین) is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.

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Nigar Rafibeyli

Nigar Khudadat qizi Rafibeyli (Nigar Xudadat qızı Rəfibəyli) (1913–1981, Baku) was an Azerbaijani writer and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan.

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Nizami Ganjavi

Nizami Ganjavi (translit; c. 1141 – 1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī,Mo'in, Muhammad(2006), "Tahlil-i Haft Paykar-i Nezami", Tehran.: p. 2: Some commentators have mentioned his name as “Ilyas the son of Yusuf the son of Zakki the son of Mua’yyad” while others have mentioned that Mu’ayyad is a title for Zakki.

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Nizami Ganjavi Ganja State History-Ethnography Museum

Ganja State History-Ethnography Museum named after Nizami Ganjavi is the largest museum in Ganja,.

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Nizami Mausoleum

The Nizami Mausoleum (Nizami məqbərəsi), built in honor of the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, stands just outside the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Nizami raion (Ganja)

Nizami Rayon (Nizami Rayonu) is a municipal district of the city of Ganja, the city of Azerbaijan. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Nizami raion (Ganja) are districts of Azerbaijan.

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Olomouc Region

Olomouc Region (Olomoucký kraj;,; Kraj ołomuniecki) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western and central part of its historical region of Moravia (Morava) and in a small part of the historical region of Czech Silesia (České Slezsko).

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Ordu

Ordu or Altınordu is a port city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, historically also known as Cotyora or Kotyora (Κοτύωρα), and the capital of Ordu Province.

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Ore

Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.

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Oshin of Lampron

Oshin of Lampron (Օշին Լամբրոնացի - Oshin Lambronatsi) was an Armenian nakharar.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Ottoman–Persian Wars

The Ottoman–Persian Wars or Ottoman–Iranian Wars were a series of wars between Ottoman Empire and the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajar dynasties of Iran (Persia) through the 16th–19th centuries.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pavel Tsitsianov

Prince Pavel Dmitriyevich Tsitsianov (Па́вел Дми́триевич Цициа́нов), also known as Pavle Dimitris dze Tsitsishvili (პავლე ციციშვილი; —), was an Imperial Russian general of Georgian noble origin who played a prominent role in the Russian conquest of the South Caucasus.

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Perestroika

Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between.

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President of Azerbaijan

The president of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the head of state of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Qabala

Qabala (Qəbələ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Qabala District of Azerbaijan.

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Qajar dynasty

The Qajar dynasty (translit; 1789–1925) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe.

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Qajar Iran

The Sublime State of Iran, commonly referred to as Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, and also the Guarded Domains of Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.

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Qara Qoyunlu

The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (Qaraqoyunlular,; قره قویونلو), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman "Kara Koyunlu, also spelled Qara Qoyunlu, Turkish Karakoyunlular, English Black Sheep, Turkmen tribal federation that ruled Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468." "Better known as Turkomans...

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R-17 Elbrus

The R-17 Elbrus (named for Mount Elbrus), GRAU index 9K72 is a tactical ballistic missile, initially developed by the Soviet Union.

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a British monthly business magazine and news website covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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RIA Novosti

RIA Novosti (РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN or RIA (label), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)

The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 was one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and, like many of their other conflicts, began as a territorial dispute.

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Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)

The Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828 was the last major military conflict between the Russian Empire and Qajar Iran, which was fought over territorial disputes in the South Caucasus region.

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Safavid dynasty

The Safavid dynasty (Dudmâne Safavi) was one of Iran's most significant ruling dynasties reigning from 1501 to 1736.

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Safavid Iran

Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.

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Safavid Karabakh

The province of Karabakh (also spelled Qarabagh; translit) was a north-western province of the Safavid Iran, centered on the geographic region of Karabakh.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories.

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Seljuk dynasty

The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire." or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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Sergei Adian

Sergei Ivanovich Adian, also Adyan (Սերգեյ Իվանովիչ Ադյան; Серге́й Ива́нович Адя́н; 1 January 1931 – 5 May 2020), was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician.

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Sergei Kirov

Sergei Mironovich Kirov (born Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Siege of Ganja (1804)

The siege of Ganja (نبرد گنجه) or assault on Ganja (Штурм Гянджи) was the result of a Russian offensive in the South Caucasus intended to conquer the Ganja Khanate of Qajar Iran, which contributed to the escalation of the Russo-Persian War (1804–1813). Ganja, Azerbaijan and siege of Ganja (1804) are Ganja Khanate.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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South Caucasus

The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains.

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Soviet Airborne Forces

The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno-desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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State Statistics Committee

The State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi) is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of collection, processing and disseminating statistical data on the economy, demographics and other sectors of activity in Azerbaijan Republic.

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Stepanakert

Stepanakert (Step'anakert, Eastern pronunciation) or Khankendi (Xankəndi) is a ghost city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Stepanakert are districts of Azerbaijan.

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

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Sumgait

Sumgait (Sumqayıt) is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, on the Absheron Peninsula, about away from the capital Baku. Ganja, Azerbaijan and Sumgait are districts of Azerbaijan and Populated places in Azerbaijan.

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Tabriz

Tabriz (تبریز) is a city in the Central District of Tabriz County, in the East Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran.

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Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.

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Television presenter

A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces or hosts television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience.

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Tiflis Governorate

Tiflis Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi).

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Timurid Empire

The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey.

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Toghrul Asgarov

Toghrul Shahriyar oghlu Asgarov (born on September 17, 1992, Ganja, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani wrestler.

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Tomb of Javad Khan

Javad Khan's tomb is in Ganja, Shah Abbas Square, near the Shah Abbas Mosque.

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Trams in Ganja, Azerbaijan

The Ganja tramway network was a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Ganja, the second most populous city in Azerbaijan, for more than 40 years in the mid 20th century.

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Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic

The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR; 22 April – 28 May 1918) was a short-lived state in the Caucasus that included most of the territory of the present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as parts of Russia and Turkey.

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Treaty of Gulistan

The Treaty of Gulistan (also spelled Golestan: translit; translit) was a peace treaty concluded between the Russian Empire and Qajar Iran on 24 October 1813 in the village of Gulistan (now in the Goranboy District of Azerbaijan) as a result of the first full-scale Russo-Persian War (1804 to 1813).

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Treaty of Turkmenchay

The Treaty of Turkmenchay (translit; translit) was an agreement between Qajar Iran and the Russian Empire, which concluded the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828).

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Trolleybuses in Ganja, Azerbaijan

The Ganja trolleybus system was a system of trolleybuses forming part of the public transport arrangements in Ganja, the second most populous city in Azerbaijan, for most of the second half of the 20th century.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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Vardan Areveltsi

Vardan Areveltsi (Վարդան Արևելցի; Vardan the Easterner, – 1271 AD) was a thirteenth-century Armenian historian, geographer, philosopher and translator.

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Zand dynasty

The Zand dynasty (translit) was an Iranian dynasty, founded by Karim Khan Zand (1751–1779) that initially ruled southern and central Iran in the 18th century.

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104th Guards Airborne Division

The 104th Guards Airborne Division is a division of the Soviet Airborne Troops and the Russian Airborne Forces.

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1139 Ganja earthquake

The 1139 Ganja earthquake was one of the worst seismic events in history.

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1920 Ganja revolt

The 1920 Ganja revolt (Gəncə üsyanı) was a popular uprising against the Soviet occupation that took place in Ganja on 26 to 31 May 1920.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan

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