Aghstafa
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thumb|200px|right|Ağstafa 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.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ağstafa
- Region
- Ağstafa
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 12,542
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Agstafa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City and Municipality
- Settlement.native_name
- Ağstafa
- Settlement.shield_size
- 80x110px
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Agstafa un memulatlari.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Agstafa agro-industry complex
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Aghstafa
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 20,200
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 340
- Settlement.area_code
- +992 244
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thumb|200px|right|Ağstafa 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==History== Historical reference books of Agstafa indicate that the city appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century, essentially built as a new town around the construction of the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 Republic of Azerbaijan and the then still-independent Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aghstafa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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