Sabirabad (city)
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| Rayon : | Sabirabad | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 1 ' N , 48 ° 29' E | ||
| Height : | 12 m below sea level | ||
| Residents : | 30,612 (2018) | ||
| Time zone : | AZT ( UTC + 4 ) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+994) +994 21 | ||
| Postal code : | AZ5400 | ||
| License plate : | 54 | ||
| Community type: | City (şəhər) | ||
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Sabirabad (formerly Petropavlovka and Qalaqayın ) is a city in Azerbaijan and the administrative center of Sabirabad Rayon . It has a good 30,000 inhabitants.
location
Sabirabad is located on the right bank of the Kür river near the mouth of the Araz in the dry Mugan steppe .
history
The city was founded by Ukrainian settlers as Petropavlovka . It was later called Qalaqayın, before it was renamed again in honor of the poet Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir . After the military escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the early 1990s, around 10,000 refugees from the conflict region were housed in a camp near Sabirabad.
traffic
Sabirabad is connected to the capital Baku and cities in the south-west of the country such as İmişli via a bus line .
Web links
Commons : Sabirabad - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anton Finko: THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION. Accessed August 29, 2018 .
- ^ Sabirabad. Azerbaijan Developement Gateway, archived from the original ; accessed on November 15, 2004 .
- ^ J. Searle-White: The Psychology of Nationalism . Palgrave, 2001, p. IX ( google.de ).
- ↑ Thomas de Waal: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War . New York University Press, 2003, Sabirabad: The Children's Republic.
- ↑ Philine von Oppeln, Frank Schüttig: Azerbaijan: With Baku, Caucasus and Caspian Sea . Trescher Verlag, 2016 ( google.de ).