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In order to elaborate a Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, a special working group at the level of deputy foreign ministers was established in 1996 by the Caspian states. Negotiation of the document lasted more than 20 years before its signing on 12 August 2018 by the heads of five Caspian states at the summit in Kazakhstan.
The Rus' first penetrated to the Muslim areas adjacent to the Caspian Sea as traders rather than warriors. By the early 9th century, the Norsemen settled in northwestern Russia, where they established a settlement called Aldeigja (Slavic: Ladoga) about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the Volkhov River entry into Lake Ladoga.
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
The settlement's sky is very busy, as majority of the time it serves as a passageway for many airplanes which fly over the territory of Azerbaijan into the Caspian Sea. Public bus services are the primary mode of transit, including the 140E BakuBus route, which links Mardakan to Baku's Nizami Rayon. The route starts at Koroglu Metro Station.
Namazgtepe ('tepe' means "hill") is 100–120 kilometers from Ashgabat in Turkmenistan at the border with Iran, southeast of the Caspian Sea. Excavations at this site have provided a chronological approach for Central Asia. [6] Namazga-Tepewas the largest settlement found in the Kopetdag foothills, a range of hills extending up to the border ...
The settlement of Neft Daşları was built after oil was discovered there on 7 November 1949 [9] at 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) beneath the Caspian Sea. It became the world's first offshore oil platform. [10] [11] By 1951, the Neft Daşları was ready for production, equipped with all of the infrastructure needed at the time.
Astrakhan was conquered in 1556, giving Russia a base at the north end of the Caspian Sea. They soon made an alliance with Kabardia and built a fort at the mouth of the Sunzha River. After about 1580 Russia disengaged from the Caucasus region for about 200 years, holding Astrakhan and slowly pushing settlement south toward the Black Sea.
Memar, Parya, „New urban Settlements in the ecological context; Miānqāla and its new settlement in the south eastern coasts of Caspian Sea“. In: Sustainable Development of Emerging Settlement Patterns, Berlin 2006: pp. 88–102 (ISBN 978-3-7983-2022-2) Etymology of Ashuradeh Islands; Ashuradeh Island Profile; Pictures