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Baku (獏 or 貘) are Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. They originate from the Chinese Mo . According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over when the gods finished creating all other animals.
The Old City is the most ancient part of Baku, [3] which is surrounded by walls. In 2007, the Old City had a population of about 3,000 people. [4] In December 2000, the Old City of Baku, including the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became the first location in Azerbaijan to be classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. [10] Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships.
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. It was also the capital of Shirvan (during the reigns of Akhsitan I and Khalilullah I), the Baku Khanate, ...
Azerbaijan State Puppet Theater - was created in 1931 for children in Baku. In some years (1931-1941; 1946-1950) It operated as an independent theater, and it operated as Azerbaijan State Theater of Young Spectators during 1941–1946 years, and it has been operated under the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall since 1950.
The Maiden Tower (Azerbaijani: Qız qalası) is a 12th-century monument in the Old City, Baku, Azerbaijan.Along with the Shirvanshahs' Palace, dated to the 15th century, it forms a group of historic monuments listed in 2001 under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments as cultural property, Category III.
The 26 Baku Commissars Memorial in 1987. The 26 Baku Commissars Memorial was a Soviet-era monument located in Baku, Azerbaijan , that paid tribute to the 26 Baku Commissars from the Baku commune. The commune was overthrown in 1918 and the commissars were later executed near Krasnovodsk (now Türkmenbaşy ).
Mehriban Aliyeva and Svetlana Medvedeva visited the museum. The museum focuses on the second half of the twentieth century and contains over 800 works by notable Azerbaijani painters and sculptors, particularly avant garde art of the 1960s and 1970s, including Rasim Babayev, Ashraf Murad, Gennady Brejatjuk, Fazil Najafov, Mamed Mustafaev, Aga Houssejnov, Ali Ibadullaev, Mir-Nadir Zeynalov ...