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4 unusual facts about Julfa


Armenians in Italy

Baglivi was the name of a doctor of Lecce who adopted him as an orphan of a Julfa family.

Julfa

Jolfa County, an administrative subdivision of East Azarbaijan Province of Iran

Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway

That branch was completed in 1902, and later extended to Julfa on the Iranian border.

Nahabed I of Armenia

When Nahabed died there was still much confusion and turmoil amongst the people and so the pontificate stayed vacant for more than a year until Alexander of Julfa was called to the throne by general consent.


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Armenian cemetery in Julfa

In April 2011, the newly appointed United States ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza visited Nakhchivan but was inexplicably refused access to Julfa by Azerbaijani authorities.

Azerbaijan in World War II

Railwaymen of Azerbaijan carried out a maintenance and general exploitation of Julfa-Tabriz railway road according to rules of the wartime.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

Jolfa

Jolfa is located to the north of Tabriz, separated by the Aras River from its northern neighbor and namesake, the town of Julfa in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Kirna

Kırna, village and municipality in Julfa Rayon, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Vittoria Aganoor

They had moved to Persia in the eleventh century, settling in Julfa.


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