The document provides information on several important sightseeing locations in Azerbaijan, including: 1) The Agdam Mosque, one of the few buildings in Agdam not destroyed during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, built from 1868-1870 in the typical mosque style of the Karabakh region. 2) The Azykh Cave, an archaeological site containing Neanderthal remains over 300,000 years old, considered one of the oldest human habitations in Eurasia. 3) The Baku Ateshgah Fire Temple, a religious structure built in the 17th-18th centuries that was abandoned after oil plants were established nearby and is now a museum.

1. Sightseeing
of
Azerbaijan

2. The Agdam Mosque
• The Agdam Mosque -is a large mosque
in Agdam,Azerbaijan. It was one of the
few buildings of the town that wasn't
destroyed during the Nagorno-Karabakh
war.

3. Construction
The mosque was built by the architect Karbalayi
Safikhan Karabakhi from 1868 to 1870. The
mosque was built in the typical style for
mosques in Karabakh region, which included the
division of stone columns on the two-story
gallery and the use of domed ceilings. Other
mosques in this style include Barda Mosque, the
Govharaga Mosque in Shusha, a mosque
in Fizuli and one in the village of Goradiz.

4. The Azykh Cave
• The Azykh Cave -is an impressive six-cave
complex known as a living site of stone-age
man. It lies about 3 km northeast of the village of
Tugh in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan. The
territory of the cave has been under the control
of Armenian forces since the 1991-94 Nagorno-
Karabakh War.

5. The Azykh Cave
• Extensively examined by archaeologists in the
1960s, the cave is considered to be the site of
one of the most ancient proto-human habitations
in Eurasia. A Neanderthal-style jaw bone found
here by Mammadali Huseynov in 1968 and now
kept at the Academy of Sciences in Baku is
thought to be over 300,000 years old and thus
one of the oldest proto-human remains found in
this part of the world. Its discovery gave rise to
the term Azykh Man.

6. The Baku Ateshgah
• The Baku Ateshgah or "Fire Temple " is
a castle-like religious structure
inSurakhani, a suburb of
greater Baku, Azerbaijan. "Atash" is the
Persian word for fire.

7. The Baku Ateshgah
• The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard
surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar-
altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and
18th centuries. It was abandoned after
1883 when oil and gas plants were established
in the vicinity. The complex was turned into a
museum in 1975 and now receives 15,000
visitors a year. It was nominated for World
Heritage Site status in 1998 and was declared a
state historical-architectural reserve by decree of
the Azeri President on 19 December 2007.

8. The Maiden Tower
• The Maiden Tower or also known locally as Giz
Galasi located in the Old
City, Baku in Azerbaijan is an ancient tower with
cultural affinity corroborating the
presence Zoroastrians, Sassanians, Arabs, Pers
ians, Shirvanis, Ottomans, and Russians.

9. History
• There are a number of competing
explanations for the name, the most
prominent of which is the legend of a
maiden who threw herself off its top to her
death in the waves below.
Depiction of Maiden
Tower on Azerbaijani
manat

10. Оld City
• Оld City or Inner City (is the historical
core of Baku. In December 2000, the Old
City of Baku, including thePalace of the
Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became
the first location in Azerbaijan to be
classified as a World Heritage Site by
UNESCO.

11. Оld City

12. Gobustan National Park
• Gobustan National Park officially Gobustan
Rock Art Cultural Landscape is a hill and
mountain site occupying the southeast end of
the Big Caucasian Ridge in Azerbaijan, mainly in
the basin of Jeyrankechmaz River, between the
rivers Pirsagat and Sumgait. It is located west of
the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles
(64 km) southwest of the centre of Baku on the
west bank of the Caspian Sea.

13. Gobustan National Park
• The territory of Gobustan is cut up with numerous, sometimes rather
deep ravines .Тhat is a suggested origin of the Gobustan
geographical name.
• In 1966 Gobustan was declared a national historical landmark
of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, relics,
mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region. The mountains
Boyukdash, Kichikdash, Jingirdag, and the Yazili hill were taken
under legal government protection. These mountains are located
near the Caspian Sea, in the southeast part of Gobustan.

14. Palace of the Shirvanshahs
• Palace of the Shirvanshahs is the
biggest monument of the Shirvan-
Absheron branch of
the Azerbaijan architecture, situated in the
Inner City of Baku.

15. History
• In the 15th century the Shirvanshah dynasty, under Ibrahim I of
Shirvan, transferred his country's capital from Shemakha to Baku
following a devastating earthquake, and where he committed
himself to the construction of the "palace". The building is believed
to be a memorial complex built around the sacred place of
worship and a tomb of Seyyid Yahya Bakuvi who was
a Helwati Sufi saint. The Shirvanshahs were patrons of the Helwati
Sufi order and Shirvanshah Khalilullah I was buried with his family in
the grounds of the palace. Other historians argue that the building
was used as the ruler's palace, however both theories suffer from
the absence of evidence. It is known however, that wells inside the
grounds of the "palace" were considered to have healing qualities
until recent times, as was the hill where the palace was built.
• After the Safavid conquest of Baku in 1501, the Sufi order was
expelled and over centuries the "palace" fell into ruin, and was
known in Baku as Baku Khans palace; this toponym moved into
Russian historiography, first cited by Bartold.

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