Shaki, Azerbaijan

Sheki Şəki
Central street in Shaki
Seal
Sheki Location o Shaki in Azerbaijan
Coordinates: 41°11′31″N 47°10′14″E
Kintra	Azerbaijan
Govrenment
• Heid o the Executive Pouer	Murad Cabbarli
Elevation	545 m (1,788 ft)
Population  (2008)
• Total	65,045
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)
Website	sheki-ih.gov.az

Shaki (Azerbaijani: Şəki; til 1968 kent as Nukha, Nuxa; wis forbye kent as, Nucha, Noukha, Shäki, an Sheki) is a ceety in northwastren Azerbaijan, in the rayon o the same name.

Shaki is situatit in northren Azerbaijan on the soothren pairt o the Greater Caucasus muntain range, 325 km (202 mi) frae Baku. The population o Shaki is 63,000.

Etymology

Accordin tae the Azerbaijani historians, the name o the toun gaes back tae the ethnonym o the Sakas, wha reakit the territory o modren day Azerbaijan in the 7t century B.C. an populatit it for several centuries. In the medieval sources, the name o the toun is foond in various forms such as Sheke, Sheki, Shaka, Shakki, Shakne, Shaken, Shakkan, Shekin.

Geography an climate

Shaki is surroondit bi snawy peaks o the Greater Caucasus, in some places reachin 3000–3600 m. Shaki's climate includes a range o cyclones an anticyclones, air masses an local winds. The average annual temperatur in Sheki is 12 °C. In Juin an August, average temperatur varies atween 20 an 25 °C.

The muntain forests aroond the aurie prevent the ceety frae floods an owerheatin o the aurie in simmer. The main rivers o the ceety are the Kish an Gurjhana. Throu the Soviet rule o Azerbaijan, mony ascendit tae Shaki tae bathe in its prestigious mineral springs.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

• Gabrovo, Bulgarie
• Slutsk, Belaroushie
• Giresun, Turkey
• Zhmerynka, Ukraine
• Lapseki, Turkey

Freemit airtins

Travel guide tae Shaki frae Wikivoyage

• Shaki (as Şəki) at GEOnet Names Server
• Azerbaijan Development Gateway - Sheki Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine