Alexander Shirvanzade
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Alexander Minasi Movsisian, better known by his pen name Alexander Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist. He was one of the main representatives of the realist movement in Armenian liter
Alexander Shirvanzade
Stamp of Armenia, 2008
Shamakhi
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Shamakhi is a city in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Shamakhi District. The city's estimated population as of 2010 was 31,704. It is famous for its traditional dancers, and also for p
Alexander Shirvanzade
…one of the main representatives of the realist movement in Armenian literature. Alexander Movsisian was born on 18 April 1858 into a tailor's family in Shamakhi, the center of the historical province of Shirvan (then Shemakha Governorate, Russian Empire, modern-day Azerbaijan), from which he later derived his…
Montage of Şamaxı 2019
1683 illustration of Shamakhi by Engelbert Kaempfer (published 1734)
Yeddi Gumbez Mausoleum
Mausoleum of Shakhandan, brother of famous Azeri poet Nasimi. Built in the 17th century.