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Şahtaxtı
Şahtaxtı is a village and municipality in the Kangarli District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The village is located in the Sharur plain, 4.5 km south-west from the regional center. Its population engages in farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, kindergarten, cultural house and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 3,100. The medieval monuments of ''Cinlidere'' are located in the south-west of the village; in the west, near the Givrag plateau, is the location of ''Shahbaghy''. South of the village lies the city of Poldasht in Iran. Etymology The name "Şahtaxtı" is the turkified name of the Persian "Shahtakht", which literally means "King's throne" (''Persian:'' "''Shah''" ''شاه + "Takht" تخت''), which itself is a Persian translation of the Armenian name "Tagavoranist" (''Armenian:'' "''Tagavor''" Թագավոր + ա + "''Nist''" նիստ). The original name of the settlement was "Arkashat" (Արքաշատ), meaning "The joy of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarifa Aliyeva
Zarifa Aziz gizi Aliyeva (; 28 April 1924 – 15 April 1985) was an Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and professor. She was the wife of third President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev and the mother of the fourth President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. Biography Zarifa Aziz was born in Shahtakhkty village, Sharur to ethnic Azerbaijani parents in 1924. Her father was Aziz Aliyev, People's Commissar of Public Health Services of the Azerbaijan SSR and later the first secretary of the Communist party's oblast committee of Dagestan. In 1948, she married Heydar Aliyev. On October 12, 1955, their daughter Sevil was born, and on December 24, 1961, their son Ilham was born. In 1982, she lived in Moscow with her family. Much of Aliyeva's working life was spent at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Advanced Medical Studies. She devised and introduced new methods for treatment of ocular diseases. She was the author of 14 monographs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poldasht
Poldasht () is a city in the Central District of Poldasht County in Iran's West Azerbaijan province, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city lies on the western bank of the Aras River. Poldasht is a Persian word meaning ''arable land by the bridge''. The city is situated near the border crossing with the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. Across the Poldasht-Shah Takhti Bridge over the Aras is the Azerbaijani village of Şahtaxtı. It is one of the two Iran-Nakhchivan border crossings; the other is located near the city of Jolfa in East Azerbaijan province. Also adjacent to Poldasht is the Aras River Dam. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 8,584 people in 2,205 households, when it was capital of the former Poldasht District of Maku County Maku County () is in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Maku. History After the 2006 National Census, Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Aliyev
Aziz Mammad Karim oghlu Aliyev (; 20 December 1896 – 27 July 1962) was an Azerbaijani, Dagestani, and Soviet politician, scientist, and member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He was the father-in-law of Azerbaijan's President Heydar Aliyev, who married his daughter Zarifa Aliyeva in 1948, maternal grandfather of Azerbaijan's current President Ilham Aliyev and brother of Shamama Alasgarova, who was a doctor. Early life Aziz Aliyev, due to his high academic standing, was exempt from paying for education, fortunately for his family who were in financial need. After graduating with honours, Aliyev was sponsored by philanthropist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev to enter the Russian Medical Military Academy in Saint Petersburg in 1917. Because of the October Revolution and civil unrest in the South Caucasus marked by political instability and ethnic cleansings, Aliyev had to return to Armenia in 1918 and fled with his family first to Shahtakhti (a town in Nakhchivan) and then to northern I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia (country), Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The territory of what is now Azerbaijan was ruled first by Caucasian Albania and later by various Persian empires. Until the 19th century, it remained part of Qajar Iran, but the Russo-Persian wars of Russo-Persian War (1804–1813), 1804–1813 and Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), 1826–1828 forced the Qajar Empire to cede its Caucasian territories to the Russian Empire; the treaties of Treaty of Gulistan, Gulistan in 1813 and Treaty of Turkmenchay, Turkmenchay in 1828 defined the border between Russia and Iran. The region north o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Justice (Azerbaijan)
The Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan () is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of regulation of the justice system, overseeing the public prosecutor, maintaining the legal system and public order and instituting law reforms. History The Ministry of Justice was one of the first ministries of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic established on May 28, 1918, the day of declaration of independence of Azerbaijan. Its statute was ratified by the National Assembly of Azerbaijan on November 22, 1918. After the occupation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic by the 11th Army of Soviet Russia in May 1920 the Ministry of Justice was abolished, and by the decision of the Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee the People's Commissariat of Justice was established instead. In 1930, the Commissariat was liquidated, all its competencies were transferred to the Supreme Court, the Central Executive Committee, the prosecutor's office and other bodies. In 1933, the People's Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Kangarli District
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
