The Khazar raion ( az, Xəzər rayonu) is one of the 12
rayonlar in
Baku,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
. It has a population of 170,400.
Name
Before being renamed by the decision of the Parliament of Azerbaijan on May 11, 2010, the raion was called Azizbekov (Azerbaijani: Əzizbəyov) after
Meshadi Azizbekov.
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Municipalities
The raion contains the municipalities of Binə, Buzovna, Çilov-Neft Daşları Çilov-Neft Daşları (also, Cilov-Neft Daşları) is a municipality in the Pirallahy raion of Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,797. The municipality consists of an island with the three villages of Çilov and Neft Daşları
Neft Daş ...
, Gürgən-Pirallahı Gürgən-Pirallahı is a municipality in the Əzizbəyov raion of Baku, Azerbaijan
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, Mərdəkan, Qala, Şağan, Şüvəlan, Türkan
Türkan (also, Turkyany, Tyurkend, Tyurkyan, and Tyurkyany) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan
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, and Zirə
Zira ( az, Zirə) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 11,053.
Sport
Azerbaijani professional football club Zira based in Zirə. The club competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League
The Azerbaijan Pre ...
.
See also
* Khazars
The Khazars ; he, כּוּזָרִים, Kūzārīm; la, Gazari, or ; zh, 突厥曷薩 ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire coverin ...
References
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Districts of Baku
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