Balaxanı
Sign in to saveBalaxanı or Balakhani (Tat: Balxuni) is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russians built the first oil-distilling factory here in 1837. In the 1886 official census, 2,843 ethnic Tats were living here.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Balaxanı
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.native_name
- Balxuni
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- City
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Baku
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sabunchu
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 11615
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +5
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- urban-type settlement
- Official name
- Balaxanı
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Located in
- Baku Uyezd
- Population
- 14123
- Elevation
- 57
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
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- native label
- Balaxanı
- Commons category
- Balaxanı
- postal code
- AZ1038
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Places of interest
- Notable natives
- See also
- References
- External links
Balaxanı or Balakhani (Tat: Balxuni) is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russians built the first oil-distilling factory here in 1837. In the 1886 official census, 2,843 ethnic Tats were living here.
its population was 11,615.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balaxanı” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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