Qazax (city)
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| Rayon : | Qazax | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 6 ' N , 45 ° 22' E | ||
| Height : | 380 m | ||
| Residents : | 21,000 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | AZT ( UTC + 4 ) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+994) 2229 | ||
| Postal code : | AZ3500 | ||
| License plate : | 35 | ||
| Community type: | City (şəhər) | ||
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Qazax ( Arabic script قازاخ, Cyrillic script Газах) is a city in Azerbaijan . It is the capital of the Qazax district . Around 21,000 people live in the city (2014).
economy
Culture and recreation
Many buildings from the 18th century have been preserved in the city, including the Juma Mosque and the Israfil Agha Baths, a traditional Turkish bathhouse. There are also two old churches in the city, but they are no longer used as such.
There are several parks in the city as well as a cultural center and a museum.
traffic
The M2 trunk road and the railway line from Ağstafa to Armenia, a good 10 km away from Qazax (there in the direction of Dilijan - Yerevan ) run through the city, but which has been interrupted to the southwest of the town as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since the early 1990s. There are regular bus and train connections to Baku.
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- ↑ Population by sex, economic and administrative regions, urban settlements of the Republic of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 2014 ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan)
- ↑ a b azerb.com about city and rayon