Shamakhi, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Shamakhi, Azerbaijan connects to 3000 places across 18 topics through 62 Bunkabop connections, anchored in history, literature, and military topics. History dominates, with threads running from the Shirvan Khanate to the Russian Empire and a series of destructive earthquakes, including the 1667 event that killed an estimated 80,000 people. The city shares many connections with Baku and Iran. A recurring pattern in the evidence: the 1902 earthquake displaced several prominent native artists and actors to Baku, seeding Azerbaijan's early film and theatre scene.