Balaxanı
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Balaxanı
Balxuni | |
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Municipality | |
  Balaxanı Location within Azerbaijan | |
| Coordinates: 40°27′42″N 49°55′12″E / 40.46167°N 49.92000°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| City | Baku |
| Raion | Sabunchu |
| Population (2015)[1] | |
• Total | 11,615 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
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Balaxanı or Balakhani (Tat: Balxuni) is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russians built the first oil-distilling factory here in 1837.[2] In the 1886 official census, 2,843 ethnic Tats were living here.[3]
As of 2015[update] its population was 11,615.
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Places of interest
[edit]- Shah Sefi's Caravanserai, monument
Balakhani houses
Balakhani street
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Notable natives
[edit]- Sadig Rahimov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR (1954–1958)[4]
- Kampan Gadimov, oil magnate and philanthropist
See also
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Balaxanı.
References
[edit]- ↑ World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan [dead link] – World-Gazetteer.com
- ↑ Smil, Vaclav (2017). Energy and Civilization: A History. Cambridge: The MIT Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780262035774.
- ↑ Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказского края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г.
- ↑ "Рагимов Садых Гаджияр Али оглы". Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991.
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