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2 unusual facts about Baku Governorate


Baku Governorate

Initially Baku Governorate included Karabakh and Zangezur, which were separated in 1868 to create Elisabethpol Governorate.

Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov

From this year to 1917, Ahmadbeyov worked as an architect in Baku Governorate, then in Baku City Council.


Qazakh District

When the South Caucasus came under British occupation, Sir John Oliver Wardrop, British Chief Commissioner in the South Caucasus, decided that assigning the Erivan Governorate and the Kars Oblast to Democratic Republic of Armenia (DRA) and the Elisabethpol and Baku Governorates to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) would solve the region's outstanding disputes.

Sadykh bey Aghabekov

Sadykh bey Aghabekov was born on March 15, 1865 in Goychay city of Baku Governorate.


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