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Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
| Site number: | 958 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 6th c.BC-15th c | |
| Date of Inscription: | 2000 | |
| Location: | Eastern Europe/Western Asia, Azerbaijan, Apsheron peninsula | |
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Other languages: Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian-bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
| Description: | The Walled City of Baku was built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, and it reveals traces of its various unremitting populations: Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian. The Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy) was built in the12th-century over earlier structures which date back to the 7th-6th centuries BC. Icheri Sheher, the Inner City, still retains a great deal of its 12th-century defensive walls. The site’s 15th-century Shirvanshahs' Palace is a prized possession among Azerbaijan's architecture. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/958 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |