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Ashig Ali
Ashig Ali (, , 1801–1911) was one of the representatives of 19th century Ashiqs of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani ashiq poetry. Biography Ashig Ali was born in 1801 in Makenis, Gizilveng village of Goycha District. In several sources, including the writings of Farman Karimzade, Shamil Asgarov and Ali Amirov, it is mentioned that he is a Kurds in Azerbaijan, Kurd. According to Nazir Ahmadli, Ashig Ali was either a Kurdish or an Ayrums, Ayrum by origin. Researcher Mashallah Khudubeyli called these ideas "provocative" and added that Ashıg Ali was originally from Goycha. He started ashig music at the age of 16-17 and became famous in a short time. He had many students. The most famous of them is Ashig Alasgar, one of the well-known representatives of 19th century Azerbaijani ashig poetry. Ashig Ali wrote poems in such genres as garayli, qoshma, tajnis, divani, and mukhammas. All of Ashig Ali's poems have not yet been published as a collection, but individual poems have been published. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agstafa
Agstafa () 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. History Historical reference books of Agstafa indicate that the city appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century, essentially built as a new town around the construction of the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, which grew more important from 1914 as the junction stop for a new branch line to Yerevan. In 1920, with the region still rocked by the fallout of the 1920 Ganja Revolt, the Treaty of Agstafa was negotiated here between the newly Sovietised Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Republic of Azerbaijan and the then still-independent Democratic Republic of Georgia. Agstafa rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurds In Azerbaijan
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syria. Consisting of 30–45 million people, the global Kurdish population is largely concentrated in Kurdistan, but significant communities of the Kurdish diaspora exist in parts of West Asia beyond Kurdistan and in parts of Europe, most notably including: Turkey's Central Anatolian Kurds, as well as Istanbul Kurds; Iran's Khorasani Kurds; the Caucasian Kurds, primarily in Azerbaijan and Armenia; and the Kurdish populations in various European countries, namely Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The Kurdish languages and the Zaza–Gorani languages, both of which belong to the Western Iranic branch of the Iranic language family, are the native languages of the Kurdish people. Other widely spoken languages among the community are those of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 4 – Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions, Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition, ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 Births
Events January–March *January 1 ** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland. ** Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the asteroid and dwarf planet Ceres (dwarf planet), Ceres. *January 3 – Toussaint Louverture triumphantly enters Santo Domingo, the capital of the former Spanish Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, colony of Santo Domingo, which has become a colony of First French Empire, Napoleonic France. *January 31 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States. *February 4 – William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. *February 9 – The Treaty of Lunéville ends the War of the Second Coalition between France and Austria. Under the terms of the treaty, all German territories left of the Rhine are officially annexed by France while Austria also has to recognize the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Culture (Azerbaijan)
The Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan Republic () is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of regulation of the activities and promotion of Culture of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani culture. The ministry is headed by Adil Karimli. General information The ministry which is located in the capital of the country- Baku is funded mainly from the state budget. The Statute of the Ministry approved by the President determines the main directions, tasks, rights and organization of activity of this state body. The institutions under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan include 28 theaters, 6308 historical and cultural monuments, 1 circus and 12 concert centers, 3985 libraries, 2708 clubs, 189 museums (with branches), 234 children's music schools, art and painting schools, 33 art galleries and exhibition hall, 21 state reserves, 60 cultural and leisure parks, 1 Zoo, a Scientific and Methodological Center for Culture, 4 Leisure Centers, 6 economic organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heydar Aliyev Palace
Heydar Aliyev Palace (Azeri language, Azeri: Heydər Əliyev Adına Saray, also known as Baku Palace, formerly Republic Palace (Respublika Sarayı) and during the Soviet Union, Soviet era known as Lenin Palace (Лeнин aдынa) is the main music venue of Baku, Azerbaijan, seating 2,500 people. The palace was renamed after the death of Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev in 2003. Alish Lemberanskiy was the designer and main visioner of the palace. It is a concert complex where state events are held alongside cultural programs. The concert hall of the palace is considered to be the biggest scene in the republic. History The palace operates as "Palace named after VI Lenin" from December 14, 1972. In 1991, it was renamed to "Republic Palace". According to the decree of the Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev dated March 10, 2004, the palace was renamed to "Heydar Aliyev Palace". In 2007-2008, the palace was fundamentally repaired - equipped with new equipment, changes were made in appearan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukhammas
Mukhammas (Arabic مخمس 'fivefold') refers to a type of Persian or Urdu cinquain or pentastich with Sufi connections based on a pentameter. And have five lines in each paragraph. It is one of the more popular verse forms in Tajik Badakhshan, occurring both in madoh and in other performance-genres. Details of the form The ''mukhammas'' represents a stanza of two distichs and a hemistich in monorhyme, the fifth line being the "bob" or burden: each succeeding stanza affects a new rhyme, except in the fifth line, e.g., a rhyme scheme of AAAAB CCCCB DDDDB and so forth. Every stanza of a ''mukhammas'' includes five lines. *In the first stanza, all five lines rhyme. *In the later stanzas, the first four lines rhyme, but the fifth line breaks the rhyme. It can be repeated, or else its rhyme can be that of the first stanza. Themes A recurrent theme of the ''mukhammas'' is praise of Imam Ali and his companions but other themes also occur. Poets Many Urdu poets have contributed to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashig Alasgar
Ashig Alasgar (; 1821 – 7 March 1926) was an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani mystic troubadour (Ashik) and highly regarded poet of Azerbaijani folk songs. He was born in the village of Azat, Armenia, Azat, then known as Aghkilsa, in what was then the Nor Bayazet uezd, Goycha District of the Erivan Khanate. Early life Ashig Alasgar was born in 1821 in the village of Azat, Armenia, Azat in the Gegharkunik Province, Sevan region. His father Almammad worked as a carpenter. At the same time, he was also known for his intelligence in literature. Almammad was fairly good at poetry genres such as Gerayly, Qoshma and Bayati. It was presumed that Almammad had a huge impact on Ashiq Alasgar. Ashiq Alasgar grew up in a big and poor family with three brothers and two sisters. He was the eldest son of the family. Due to the financial difficulties in his family, Alasgar was obliged to work on the farm of a rich landowner, Karbalayi Gurban when he was 14. While working here, Alasgar fell in l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GünAz TV
GünAz TV () is an Azerbaijani-language television channel based in Chicago and broadcasting in Europe, West Asia, North Africa, and Central Asia. It is run by Ahmad Obali, who founded it in 2004. Ideologically, the television channel promotes a pan-Turkist viewpoint and supports ethnic Azerbaijani separatism in Iran. History The channel has its origins in 2004, when Ahmad Obali founded it with the self-proclaimed purpose of protecting the rights of Iranian Azerbaijanis. It seeks peaceful and cultural action against racism and discriminatory government policies in Iran. It was given the name GünAz, a portmanteau made up from "Güney Azərbaycan" (), which translates to "South Azerbaijan", a term used by Azerbaijani irridentists to describe Iranian Azerbaijan. In explaining his and his colleagues' goals, Ahmad Obali explained: “Our activists want an independent South Azerbaijan because we will do much better once we are independent. We can move toward a union with North Aze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayrums
Ayrums (, in Persian often as ''Âyromlū'') are a Turkic tribe, considered to be a sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijanis after the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They have been historically associated with the area nearby the city of Gyumri (in present-day Armenia). History In 1828, after the signing of the Treaty of Turkmenchay by which Iran lost the khanates (provinces) of Erivan and Nakhchivan, Iranian Crown Prince Abbas Mirza invited many of the Turkic tribes that would be otherwise subjected to rule by the Russian Empire to move inside Iran's newly established borders. The Ayrumlu were one of them and were settled in Avajiq, a district to the west of Maku. They are associated with numerous villages in Iran's West Azerbaijan province and are completely sedentary in contemporary times. During the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, some more migrated to Iran and Turkey. The Ayrums also live in the westernmost reaches of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamil Asgarov
Shamil Asgarov or Shamil Askerov (, 1929, Ağcakənd – 20 May 2005, Baku) was an Azerbaijani Kurdish scholar, poet, and researcher on the history of the Kurds in Azerbaijan. He was the leader of Kalbajar's large Kurdish community, owned a 30,000 book library of books about Caucasian Kurds and their history and was the founder and former director of the Kurdish Museum in Kelbajar before that town was occupied by Armenian forces and the former population forced to flee in 1993. He was also editor of the Kurdish newspaper ''Denge Kurd'' published from 1991 to 2004 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Shamil Asgarov translated the classic Kurdish love story '' Mem and Zin'' into Azerbaijani and was the author of 17 other books among them one, ''Ferhenge'', a Kurdish-Azerbaijani dictionary, was published in 1999 with the support of the Soros Foundation. Shamil's son, Khalid, a photographer for Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makenis
Makenis () is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to .... History The Makenyats Vank monastery in the village was a major cultural and educational center of medieval Gegharkunik, with structures dating from the 9th to 13th centuries. Gallery Makenyats Vank, Makenis, Gegharkunik Province 02.jpg, Makenyats Vank MAQENYATS MONASTERY Վանական համալիր. Մաքենյաց վանք 33.JPG, River near Makenyats Vank Makenyats Vank, Makenis, Gegharkunik Province 05.jpg, Khachkars around Makenyats Vank The dome of Makenyats Monastery.jpg, The dome of Makenyats Vank References External links * * Populated places in Gegharkunik Province {{gegharkunik-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
