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Barzavu
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Barzavu is a village and municipality in the Lerik Rayon of Azerbaijan, a hilly region near the Iranian border. It is a Talysh village in the Talysh region. It is 150 miles south of Baku, and has a population of 637. left|thumbnail|Barzavu in the 1970s It is known as the hometown of Shirali Muslimov (a.k.a. Mislimov), an ethnic Talysh shepherd who was believed by some to have been the oldest man that ever lived. Though he had no birth certificate, the date of birth given in his passport was 1805, which, if true, would make him 168 when he died in 1973. The area has been studied by experts who

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Place details

Region
Lerik District
Country
Azərbaycan
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Barzavu
Settlement.settlement_type
Municipality
Settlement.pushpin_map
Azerbaijan
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Rayon
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Lerik
Settlement.population_total
637
Settlement.timezone
AZT
Settlement.utc_offset
+4
Settlement.timezone_DST
AZT
Settlement.utc_offset_DST
+5

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
Azerbaijan
Located in
Talysh Khanate
Population
637
Elevation
1530
Time zone
UTC+04:00
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native label
Barzavu
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Barzavu is a village and municipality in the Lerik Rayon of Azerbaijan, a hilly region near the Iranian border. It is a Talysh village in the Talysh region. It is 150 miles south of Baku, and has a population of 637. left|thumbnail|Barzavu in the 1970s It is known as the hometown of Shirali Muslimov (a.k.a. Mislimov), an ethnic Talysh shepherd who was believed by some to have been the oldest man that ever lived. Though he had no birth certificate, the date of birth given in his passport was 1805, which, if true, would make him 168 when he died in 1973. The area has been studied by experts who agree that centenarians are unusually common in the area.

The area had a major earthquake in 1998. The nearby town of Lerik contains a history museum, a Karabakh War memorial and a hotel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barzavu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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