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Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. It is located on the Absheron peninsula, the u201cheadu201d of the Azerbaijani eagle, in a bay at the Caspian Sea. It is the largest city of Azerbaijan as well as of the South Caucasus and the political, economic and cultural center of Azerbaijan
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Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. It is located on the Absheron peninsula, the “head” of the Azerbaijani eagle, in a bay at the Caspian Sea. It is the largest city of Azerbaijan as well as of the South Caucasus and the political, economic and cultural center of Azerbaijan
Koroghlu is the main hero of epic with the same name in Azerbaijani and Turkish as well as some other Turkic languages. The epic tells about the life and heroic deeds of Koroghlu as a hero of the people who struggled against unjust rulers. The epic combines the occasional romance with Robin Hood-like chivalry.
Fuzuli (c.1494 – 1556) was the pen name of the Azeri or the Bayat branch of Oghuz Turkic and Ottoman poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman
Often considered one of the greatest contributors to the Divan tradition of Azerbaijani literature, Fuzuli in fact wrote his collected poems (divan) in three different languages: in his native Azeri, Persian, and Arabic
Secession-style opera house, built within a year in 1911 by the wealthy Mailov brothers to lure the great Russian soprano AntoninaNezhdanova to the city
A fellow oil baron, ZeynalabdinTaghiyev, bet it would not be ready in time and when it was, he paid the entire bill
Statue of famous Ukrainian author/poet/artist Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
HeydarAliyev Palace, also known as Baku Palace, formerly Republic Palace
BahramGur, sculptural fountain, considered as first one in Baku is devoted to epic hero of NizamiGanjavi's "The Seven Beauties". Created by sculptors Albert Mustafayev, QorxmazSucaddinov and Aslan Rustamov in 1960s
Baku Conservatory Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885-1948)
The author of monument is Yuri Grigoryevich Orekhov - the people's artist of the Russia, laureate of the Lenin's and State Prizes of the USSR, Vise-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, honored member of Fine Arts Academy of Carrara
Artist Baku Boulevard
Mustafa KemalAtatürk by OlmarEldarov, the sculptor, the President of Azerbaijan Academy of Arts
Azerbaijani-Georgian Friendship Statue. Horse statue represents powerful energy
Azerbaijani-Georgian Friendship Statue. Monumental composition "the released energy," decorates the park "Friendship of Peoples"
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