Shirvanshah’s Palace And Maiden Tower | Inside Walled City Of Baku.

Based on a site occupied since the Paleolithic period, the Walled City of Baku uncovers proof of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in social progression. The Inner City (Icheri Sheher) has safeguarded quite a bit of its twelfth century protective dividers. The twelfth century Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy) is worked over prior structures dating from the seventh to sixth hundreds of years BC, and the fifteenth century Shirvanshahs’ Palace is one of the pearls of Azerbaijan’s design.

Ascending from the south shore of the Apsheron Peninsular at the western edge of the Caspian Sea, the Walled City of Baku was established on a site occupied since the Paleolithic period. The city uncovers, alongside the predominant Azerbaijani component, proof of Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in social coherence. Ghetto (Icherisheher) has protected a lot of its twelfth century cautious dividers, which characterize the personality of the property. The most antiquated landmark of Icherisheher is the Maiden Tower.

Some proof recommends that the development of the Tower could have been as soon as the seventh sixth hundreds of years BC. One more landmark of all inclusive worth, one of the pearls of Azerbaijan’s design is the twelfth to fifteenth century Shirvanshahs’ Palace, situated at the most elevated place of Icherisheher. Inside the Palace complex are the Divankhana (banquet room) or, as certain scientists accept, the Tomb of Shah, the private structure of Shirvanshahs, the remaining parts of Key-Kubad Mosque, the Tomb of Seyid Yahya Bakuvi, Murad’s Gate (the main landmark of the sixteenth 100 years), the Tomb of Shirvanshahs’ Family, the Shah Mosque and the Palace shower house. Prior landmarks of Icherisheher incorporate the Mohammed Mosque, along with the adjoining minaret worked in 1078, and stays of the ninth to tenth century mosque close to the Maiden Tower.

There are likewise various authentic structural landmarks of the middle age period like caravanserais, hamams (shower houses), mosques and private structures of the eighteenth to twentieth hundreds of years situated inside the property.

The greatness of Icherisheher lies in the blend of its unmistakable engineering landmarks and its created design spatial preparation with unique road sees, which have converged into a solitary substance to mirror long history and the merging of societies have affected its improvement throughout the course of recent hundreds of years. Icherisheher is yet a living, energetic city with neighborhoods lodging nearby networks.