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Abdulla Beg Velizade
Abdulla Beg Velizade (known as Mashadi Abish Beg; 1841, Shusha, Caspian province – 1912, Shusha) was a poet and a member of the Baharly tribe. He was the son of Mashadi Asadulla beg Veliev. Life Abdulla Beg Velizade was born in 1841 in the city of Shusha. He knew Persian and Russian languages. His father, Mashadi Asadulla Beg Veliev, son of Haji Hasanali Beg Veliev, was known as a merchant in Shusha. His mother's name was Azad khanum. He was the younger brother of Mahammadali Beg Velizade. Abdulla Beg received his education in Shusha and was an active member of the "Majlisi-Faramushan" organized by Mir Mohsun Navvab, writing poems in a classical style. While a member of "Majlisi-Faramushan," Abdulla Beg Velizade befriended and exchanged poems with several poets. He exchanged poems with poets such as Hasanali khan Garadaghi and Fatma khanum Kamina, who were also members of "Majlisi-Faramushan." Mirza Khosrov Akhundov, a contemporary of Abdulla Beg Velizade living in Shusha, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shusha
Shusha (, ) or Shushi () is a city in Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres (4,600–5,900 ft) in the Karabakh mountains, the city was a mountain resort in the Soviet Union, Soviet era. Most sources date Shusha's establishment to the 1750s by Panah Ali Khan, founder of the Karabakh Khanate, coinciding with the foundation of Shusha fortress, the fortress of Shusha. Some attribute this to an alliance between Panah Ali Khan and Melik Shahnazar II, Melik Shahnazar, the local Armenian prince () of Melikdom of Varanda, Varanda. In these accounts, the name of the town originated from a nearby Armenian village called Shosh, Nagorno-Karabakh, Shosh or Shushikent (see for alternative explanations). Conversely, some sources describe Shusha as an important center within the self-governing Armenian melikdoms of Karabakh in the 1720s, and others say the plateau was already the site of an Armenian fortification.Krunk Hayots Ashkha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia (country), Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The territory of what is now Azerbaijan was ruled first by Caucasian Albania and later by various Persian empires. Until the 19th century, it remained part of Qajar Iran, but the Russo-Persian wars of Russo-Persian War (1804–1813), 1804–1813 and Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), 1826–1828 forced the Qajar Empire to cede its Caucasian territories to the Russian Empire; the treaties of Treaty of Gulistan, Gulistan in 1813 and Treaty of Turkmenchay, Turkmenchay in 1828 defined the border between Russia and Iran. The region north o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Language
Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' De facto#National languages, official language of the former Soviet Union.1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russia, Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Russian language in Israel, Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the List of languages by number of speakers in Europe, most spoken native language in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasan Ali Khan Garadaghi
Hasan Ali Khan Garadaghi () or Hasanali khan Karadakhski (), was an Azerbaijani philologist, writer, poet and teacher. He is mainly known for his contribution to "Vatan dili" (Mother Language) which was the main textbook for Azerbaijani school children for almost 40 years, from 1882 to 1920. Early life Hailing from noble family, he was born posthumously to his father Hasan Ali Agha and his mother Khatun in Shusha, 1848. His paternal grandfather was Mahammadguli Khan, the last khan of Karadakh. His mother married for second time after his birth, therefore he was raised by his uncle, Mahammad Husayn. He studied and graduated from Shusha District school in 1866, continued his Arabic, Persian and Islamic studies with help from private tutors. Being influenced by Saadi, Ferdowsi, Nizami and Khaqani, he started to experiment with ghazals and mukhammas. Pedagogical activity By 1860s, he started teaching privately in Shusha. Abandoning Islamic scholastic method, he introduced Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatma Khanum Kamina
Fatma Khanum Kamina (, born 1841, Shusha, Shusha Uyezd, Shamakhi Governorate, Russian Empire - died 1898, Shusha, Shusha Uyezd, Russian Empire) was a 19th-century female Azerbaijani poet known by her per name ''Kamina'' (the Humble One). Life She was born in 1841 in Merdinli quarter of Shusha. Her father Mirza Beybaba Fana (1787-1867, also known as Aghamirze bey) was also a poet. She was educated in Shusha. She was called "Mirza Fatma Khanum" by the people because of her education. Most of her poems are written in classical form. Mir Mohsun Navvab stated in "Tazkireyi-Navvab" that Fatma khanum had 400 poems; though it doesn't appear that they survived. Fatma took an active part in the "Mejlisi-Faramushan" gatherings of Shusha intellectuals led by Mir Mohsun Navvab and in the "Mejlisi-uns" literary circle. She died in 1898 in Shusha. Writing about her death, Firidun bey Kocharli called her "one of the rare people of the time". Family She was from Tahirovs, one of the noble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Mohsun Navvab
Mir-Mohsun Navvab () (1833–1918 in Shusha, present day Azerbaijan) occupies a prominent place in the history of Culture of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani culture as the last representative of the old traditional school of science, arts and literature. Navvab was versatile person of his time. He is known as a poet, artist, music historian, astronomer, carpenter, chemist and mathematician. Navvab was born in 1833 in Shusha and spent his life in this city. His life and works reflect a period of history when Azerbaijan was on the turning point of old and new, traditional and novel trends in culture and general way of life. Although Navvab remained a traditionalist in the arts, he was a progressive person in the public life of Karabakh who did a lot for the growth of literacy, culture, and arts in Karabakh. Navvab was a famous Calligraphy in Azerbaijani culture, calligrapher in Shusha. He published the poems of Karabakh poets and spread them among the local population. Navvab established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 Births
Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom and Qishan of the Qing dynasty agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 7,500. * January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered, and named by James Clark Ross. * January 28 – Ross discovers the "Victoria Barrier", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror. * January 30 – **El Salvador proclaims itself an independent republic, bringing an end to the Federal Republic of Central America. **A fire destroys two-thirds of the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. * February 4 – The first known reference is made to Groundhog Day, celebrated in North America, in the diary of a James Morris. * February 10 – The Act of Union (''British North America Act'', 1840) is proclaimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 Deaths
This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skipping 13 days. Friday, 30 November ''(Julian Calendar)'' immediately turned Saturday, 14 December 1912 ''(in the Gregorian Calendar)''. Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ** German Geophysics, geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. ** New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state. * January 8 – The African National Congress is founded as the South African Native National Congress, at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein, to promote improved rights for Black people, black South Africans, with Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
