Ganja, Azerbaijan

Ganja, Azerbaijan

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Ganja Azerbaijan

Ganja (/ˈɡændʒə/; Azerbaijani: Gəncə [ɟænˈd͡ʒæ]) is Azerbaijan's second largest city, with a population of around 632,600. It was named Elisabethpol (Russian: Елизаветпо́ль, tr. Yelizavetpól', IPA: [jɪlʲɪzəvʲɪtˈpolʲ]) in the Russian Empire period. The city regained its original name, Ganja, in 1920 during the first part of its incorporation into the Soviet Union. However, its name was changed again in 1935 to Kirovabad (Russian: Кироваба́д, IPA: [kʲɪrəvɐˈbat]) and retained that name through most of the rest of the Soviet period. In 1989, during perestroika, the city regained its original name.


Even though some sources from medieval Islamic time attribute the building of the town to a Muslim Arab ruler, modern historians believe that the fact that the name Ganja derives from the New Persian ganj ("treasure") and in Arabic source the name is recorded as Janza (from the Middle Persian ganza) suggests that the city existed in pre-Islamic times and was likely founded in the 5th century. The area in which Ganja is located was known as Arran from the 9th to 12th century; its urban population spoke mainly in the Persian language

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Recommended airport
Ganja Airport (KVD)
Nearby destinations
  • Goygol a 11.38 km
  • Naftalan a 43.24 km
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