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Baku, capital of Azerbaijan situated at the Caspian Sea, has preserved a great part of its medieval fortifications. The old town (Ichari-Shahar), built on a site inhabited since the Paleolithic period and conquered and lost again by a number of different peoples throughout the centuries, is marked by Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian cultures.
Baku, capital of Azerbaijan situated at the Caspian Sea, has preserved a great part of its medieval fortifications. The old town (Ichari-Shahar), built on a site inhabited since the Paleolithic period and conquered and lost again by a number of different peoples throughout the centuries, is marked by Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian cultures.
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