Sheki

Shaki is a town in northwestern Azerbaijan, inside the rayon of the identical name. Shaki is in northern Azerbaijan on the southern a part of the Greater Caucasus mountain variety, 325 km 202 mi from Baku. The population is 63,000. There are lines of large-scale settlements in Shaki relationship again to more than 2700 years ago. The Sakas had been an Iranian people that wandered from the north side of the Black Sea through Derbend passage and to the South Caucasus and from there to Asia Minor inside the seventh century B.C. They occupied a good buy of the fertile lands in South Caucasus in a place referred to as Sakasena.

The city of Shaki became one of the regions occupied through the Sakas. The unique agreement dates back to the overdue Bronze Age. Shaki changed into one among the largest cities of the Albanian states inside the 1st century. The most important temple of the ancient Albanians became positioned there. The country of Shaki changed into divided into eleven administrative provinces. Shaki became one of the critical political and economic cities earlier than the Arab invasion. But due to the invasion, Shaki was annexed to the third emirate.Zip AZ5500