Beylagan is the administrative centre of the Beylagan District of Azerbaijan. During the Soviet era, it was renamed Zhdanovsk after close Stalin associate Andrei Zhdanov. After the collapse of the Sov

Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān, commonly known as Khāqānī, was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Shirvanshah, a vassal of the Seljuks in the region of Shirvan, where he se