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Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower2000
UNESCO World Heritage
Rising from the south shore of the Apsheron Peninsular at the western edge of the Caspian Sea, the Walled City of Baku was founded on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period. The city reveals, along with the dominant Azerbaijani element, evidence of Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural continuity.
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- Title: Location
- Creator: Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
- Date Created: 2000
- Rights: Azerbaijan Travel
- Location: Azerbaijan
- Inscription Criteria: Criterion: (iv)
- Date of Inscription: 2000
- Category of Site: Cultural site
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