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Shamakhi is an ancient city of Azerbaijan founded in the V century BC. In XI-XVI centuries it was a capital of the kingdom of Shirvan and a residence of Shirvanshahs
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Azerbaijan 18 Yeddi Gumbaz mausoleum Shamakhi
Shamakhi is an ancient city of Azerbaijan founded in the V century BC. In XI-XVI centuries it was a capital of the kingdom of Shirvan and a residence of Shirvanshahs. Shamakhi was one of the most beautiful cities in the East. From the middle of XVIII century it was the centre of Shemakhan Khanate (if you remember Pushkin’s the Queen of Shemakha) Distance from Baku 135 km Population 32,000 person.
The Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory is located in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan, on the south-eastern foothills of the Great Caucasus Mountain ridge
Babak Khorramdin leaded one of the first successful uprisings against the Caliph assimilation. His Statue is erected in several cities in the Azerbaijan Republic
Dancind in Şamaxı by Grigory Gagarin, 1840 In the mid-1700s, the population of Shamakhi was about 60,000, most of whom were Armenians
Shamakhi is famous for its traditional dancers, the Shamakhi Dancers, and also for giving its name to the Soumak rugs
Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893) Woman of Shamakhy Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893) Dancing girl from Shemakha V&A Museum London
Actually, it is not a carpet (a knot-weave) but a soumak — a kind of flat-weave, similar to kilim, but different from it in that it sports an invisible (“internal”) structural weft
Yeddi Gumbaz mausoleum – is a cemetery located 1,5 km south to Şamaxı where three mausoleums from “Yeddi Gumbaz” group are still saved. Other mausoleums of the group are partly destroyed and are without cupola or walls. The mausoleum belongs to the beginning of the 18th century. This architectural monument was built for a family of Mustafa khan – the last khan of Shamakhi.
