Nizami Street, commonly known as Tarqovu or Tarqovi, is a large pedestrian and shopping street in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, named after the classical Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi.
Nizami Street at night
Torgovaya in the beginning of the 20th century
Gubernskaya Street in 1913 and Rothschilds' office building (right), (Nizami 20)
Building of opera in 1914
Nizami Ganjavi, Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century poet. Nizami is considered the greatest romantic epic p
Nizami Street
…Tarqovi (from Russian: торговый), is a large pedestrian and shopping street in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, named after the classical Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi. The street's history can be traced back to Baku's urban planning project of 1864. The street runs through the city's downtown from west to east. It…
Nezami (detail) Addressing his Son Mohammad. Attributed to Behzad, Leyli and Majnun, 1482.
Nizami Ganjavi at shah's reception. Miniature. 1570. Museum of History of Azerbaijan
Khosrow Parviz discovers Shirin bathing in a pool. Nizami's poems in a Persian miniature, created in ca. 1550 in Shiraz, Persia. Collection of Freer Gallery of Art
Atabeg of Azerbaijan Qizil Arslan welcomes Nizami