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The monument was created by Yuan Xikun in reply to an invitation of
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After Rome, Azerbaijan to install monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Beijing
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В Пекине установлен памятник Низами Гянджеви
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Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī'',Mo'in ...
(), a medieval Persian
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poet, is located in Chaoyang Park, in Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
, China. Yuan Xikun, a Chinese artist, is the author of the monument.
History
The monument was created by Yuan Xikun in reply to an invitation of Azerbaijan
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to celebrate the 20th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relationships between the People’s Republic of China and Azerbaijan.
A solemn opening ceremony of the monument was held on December 6, 2012. Latif Gandilov, the ambassador of Azerbaijan to China, officials from Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, together with Yuan Xikun, the curator of Jintai Art Museum as well as the author of the monument, unveiled the monument.В Пекине завершен памятник азербайджанскому поэту Низами Гянджеви/ref>
Description of the monument
The monument consists of a granite bust of the poet portraying him with a turban on the head. The name of the poet, the dates of his birth and death and also “The great Azerbaijani poet, scientist and thinker” () phrase are written on a pedestal inChinese
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and Azerbaijani languages. There is also a sentence by the poet in Azerbaijani and Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
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languages:
Faking Nizami's nationality has been condemned by chairman of Iran
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’s Cultural Heritage Organization Mohammad Javad Adabi who stated that "falsification of the identity of great Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi is evidence of the poorness of Azerbaijan’s culture"./ref>
See also
* Campaign on granting Nizami the status of the national poet of AzerbaijanReferences
External links
В Пекине установлен памятник Низами Гянджеви
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...