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German Prisoners Of War Cemetery (Baku)
The German prisoners of war cemetery ( az, Alman əsirləri qəbiristanlığı), also known as the "German soldiers’ cemetery" ( az, Alman əsgər məzarlığı) is a cemetery of the German prisoners of war located in the Yasamal district of Baku. There are 90 graves in the cemetery. Also on the territory of the cemetery there is a monument in the form of a black cross. History According to Tair Behbudov, a historian who studies the fate of German prisoners of war who arrived in Azerbaijan, about 42 thousand German prisoners of war arrived in Baku. As noted by another historian, Javid Bagirzadeh, the dispatch of the German prisoners of war to Azerbaijan consisted of two stages: the first group of German prisoners of war arrived in the republic in 1944, the second in 1945. The second group of prisoners of war arrived in the early 1945 from the central regions of Russia. Wounded prisoners of war were sent to Baku, some of whom later did not survived due to their injures. Many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Prisoners Of War In Azerbaijan
German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan (german: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in Aserbaidschan) are former servicemen of the Nazi Germany captured by the Soviet troops during the World War II and kept on the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR. History of the prisoners of war in Azerbaijan Arrival and accommodation According to the historian Tair Behbudov, who is studying the fate of the German prisoners of war arrived to Azerbaijan, there were about 42 thousand German prisoners of war arrived to Baku. As noted by the historian Javid Bagirzadeh, the dispatch of the German prisoners of war to Azerbaijan consisted of two stages: the first group of the German prisoners of war arrived in 1944, the second in 1945. The latest arrived in the early 1945 from the central regions of Russia. Wounded prisoners of war were sent to Baku, some of whom later died due to their wounds. As of January 1947, in Azerbaijan there were 23,266 Axis prisoners of war of various nationalities (Germans, Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasamal Raion
Yasamal is a settlement and raion in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 245,900. One of the central districts of Baku, Yasamal district, was established in 1932 as the administrative unit of the district, from the south to Sabail (3 km), west from Garadagh (3.2 km), north from Binagadi (2.8 km) and Nasimi (5 km) borders with regions. The territory of the district is 16.22 km2. Through the district, from the "Kurt Gate" and Badamdar settlement to the south bypassing Baku-Gazakh and Baku-Astara and west of New Yasamal to Baku via Baku-Gazakh, Baku-Astara and Baku-Yalama, and from Bilajari, there are exits to Gazakh and Baku-Yalama highways. 11 internally displaced persons live in the region. Of these, 5,497 families – 20,550 IDPs have been registered in the District Executive Authority up to now: The registered population density is 15,160 people per 1 sq. km. The population of the region is 118,776 people, with 48.5% males and 51.5% fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government House, Baku
, image = Gobierno de Azerbaiyán, Baku, Azerbaiyán, 2016-09-26, DD 27.jpg , alt = , caption = , former_names = Domsovet , alternate_names = , architectural_style = Baroque , location = Baku, Sabail Raion, Azadliq Square , owner = Azerbaijani government , location_country = Azerbaijan , coordinates = , start_date = 1936 , completion_date = , cost = , inauguration_date = , demolition_date = , height = , diameter = , other_dimensions = , floor_count = , floor_area = , main_contractor = , architect = Lev Rudnev, V.O. Munts , url = , references = The Government House of Baku, also known as House of Government, is a government building housing various state ministries of Azerbaijan. It is located on Neftchiler Avenue and faces the Baku Boulevard. The rear side of the building faces busy Uzeyir Hajibeyov Street of central Baku. Government House was designed for 5,500 people. History of the building From 1924 to 1927, construction of several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasan Hasanov
Hasan Aziz oghlu Hasanov ( az, Həsən Əziz oğlu Həsənov / Һәсән Әзиз оғлу Һәсәнов, born 20 October 1940) is an Azerbaijani politician and diplomat. He served as Azerbaijan's last communist leader, as its Prime Minister of Azerbaijan both during the Soviet rule and Azerbaijan's subsequent independence after the collapse of Soviet Union but eventually resigned. Early life Hasanov was born in Tbilisi. Having completed his secondary education in Tbilisi, he moved to Baku, Azerbaijan to study at Azerbaijan Technical University in 1958. In 1963, Hasanov graduated from the university and in 1981 from Baku Supreme Party School. While a student, he chaired the group, faculty, and institute Komsomol committee. In 1962, Hasanov was sent to the 14th annual All Soviet Komsomol Summit being held in Moscow as the representative of Azerbaijani students. In 1960–1963, he served as Chairman of the Baku Student Council; in 1962 through 1966, he worked as a tutor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Kinkel
Klaus Kinkel (17 December 1936 – 4 March 2019) 5. March 2019 was a German statesman, civil servant, and lawyer who served as the (1992–1998) and the |
Glencree German War Cemetery
The Glencree German War Cemetery (german: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Glencree) is located in the valley of Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. The cemetery was dedicated on 9 July 1961. There are 134 graves. Most are (air force) or (navy) personnel. Fifty-three are identified, 28 are unknown. Six bodies are those of World War I prisoners of war held by the British. Forty-six were German civilian detainees who were being shipped from Britain to Canada for internment when their ship, was torpedoed by a German U-boat, , off Tory Island, County Donegal, on July 1940. Dr Hermann Görtz, an Abwehr spy, is also buried there. Dr Görtz committed suicide after the war when he was informed he would be deported; he feared he would be handed over to the Soviet Union. The graveyard is administered by the German War Graves Commission (). Alongside the German Cemetery, on the bank of the Glencree River, a Mass rock Mass is an Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, intrinsic proper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orglandes German War Cemetery
Orglandes War Cemetery is a German World War II cemetery in Normandy, France. It is located on the northern edge of the village of Orglandes, about south east of Cherbourg and west of Sainte-Mère-Église on the Cotentin Peninsula. The burials come from summer 1944, immediately following D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. It is the second smallest of the six German war cemeteries in Normandy with a little over 10,000 burials. The cemetery is maintained and managed by the voluntary German War Graves Commission (''Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge''). Formation Created during the Battle of Normandy on 20 June 1944, the cemetery was formed by the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company for the burial of fallen 1st US Army service personnel. Initially one field containing American war dead was created followed by another for German casualties. At the war's end over 7,300 German soldiers were interred at the cemetery. The American Battle Monuments Commission began exh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German War Graves Commission
The German War Graves Commission ( in German) is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of German war graves in Europe and North Africa. Its objectives are acquisition, maintenance and care of German war graves; tending to next of kin; youth and educational work; and preservation of the memory to the sacrifices of war and despotism. Former head of the Bundeswehr Wolfgang Schneiderhan was elected President of the organisation in 2016, succeeding SPD politician Markus Meckel. The President of Germany, currently Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), is the organisation's patron. Role The German War Graves Commission cares for the graves, at 832 cemeteries in 46 countries, of more than 2.7 million persons killed during World War I and World War II. The German war graves are intended to remember all groups of war dead: military personnel, those dead by aerial warfare, murdered in the Holocaust, and all other persons persecuted to death. In addition, the Volksbund maintains cemeteries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery
The Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery () is on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England. The cemetery contains nearly 5,000 burials from both the First and Second World War. The burials are mainly German and Austrian nationals with a very small number of Ukrainians. History On 16 October 1959, the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany made an agreement about the future care of the remains of German military personnel and German civilian internees of both world wars which at the time were interred in various cemeteries not already maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It was agreed that the remains would be transferred to a single central cemetery established on Cannock Chase for this purpose. The German War Graves Commission (' or "VDK") made the necessary arrangements and the inauguration and dedication of this cemetery – which is maintained under the inter-government agreement by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Baku
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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