Agstafa
41°07′08″N 45°27′14″E / 41.11889°N 45.45389°E
Agstafa
Ağstafa | |
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City and Municipality | |
UTC+5 (AZT) | |
Area code | +992 244 |
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Agstafa (Azerbaijani: Ağstafa) is a town, municipality (assigned in 1941) and the capital of the Aghstafa District of Azerbaijan. Agstafa district was established in 1939, abolished in 1959 and merged with Gazakh district, and made into an independent district again in 1990.[2]
History
Historical reference books of Agstafa indicate that the city appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century, essentially built as a new town around the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi railway. The town was known initially as Elisavetinka, for the Russian royal, though the station did take its name from a pre-existing small village of Agstafa,
Agstafa received city status in 1941.
Geographical position
There is one city (Aghstafa), 9 settlements (Vurgun, Poylu, Shekarli, Jeyranchol, Saloglu, Soyugbulag, Soyugbulag, Hazi Aslanov, Garayazy) and 29 villages in the region. These settlements are managed by 29 administrative territorial representations and 29 municipalities.[5]
Population
Of the Agstafa region population of 88,458 as of January 2020, as many as 21,817 people live in the city and 66,562 in villages. 43,562 men and 44,817 women make up the population of the region.[6]
Transport
Agstafa has a large urban transport system, mostly managed by the Ministry of Transportation.
Rail
The city sits on one of the Azerbaijani primary rail lines running east–west connecting the capital,
Agstafa's Central Railway Station is the terminus for national and international rail links to the city. The
References
- ^ "Population by economic and administrative regions of the Azerbaijan Republic, The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan".
- ^ "Rayon haqqında | Azərbaycan Respublikası Ağstafa Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti". agstafa-ih.gov.az. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
- ^ Акстафа // Большой Энциклопедический словарь (рус.). — 2000
- ^ Saralidze L., "Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921), Encyclopedia-Dictionary", University Press, p. 367-368, Tbilisi, 2018.
- ^ "Coğrafi mövqeyi | Azərbaycan Respublikası Ağstafa Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti". agstafa-ih.gov.az. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
- ^ "Əhalisi | Azərbaycan Respublikası Ağstafa Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti". agstafa-ih.gov.az. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
- ^ "Azerbaijani FM: Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad to be built in 2012". trend.az. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ Railway Gazette International February 2009 p54 with map
External links
- Agstafa at GEOnet Names Server
- World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan[dead link] – World-Gazetteer.com
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