Shemakha province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Shemakha province

Subject:

Regional Diversity

Creator:

Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov

Source:

Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)

Publisher:

Library of Congress; Russian National Library

Date:

1856

Rights:

Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.

Language:

Russian

Region:

Caucasus

Capital:

Shemakha

Area (sq. miles):

1,030

Population:

460,000

Population density:

446.6 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Georgians, Armenians, Persians, Kists

Economic activities:

production of items made of silk and paper, fishing, factories

Trade:

Trade is rather significant.

Cities:

Notable features:

In the province there are two fortresses, at Baku and Shusha. Shemakha was reestablished as a city in 1824. Eternal fires worshipped by Indians.

Climate:

no notation

Card #:

Collection:

Regional Diversity

Tags:

Armenians, Caucasus, climate: no notation, eternal fires, fishing, fortress, Georgians, Kists, manufacturing, maritime activity, military site, notable city, Persians, port, silk, sulfur springs, trade: active