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SHEMAKHA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHEMAKHA , a See also:

town of See also:Russian See also:Transcaucasia, in the See also:government of See also:Baku, 70 M. W. of the town of Baku, and in 4o° 38' N. and 48° 40' E. It has some 20,000 inhabitants, consisting of See also:Tatars (75%), Armenians and Russians. Shemakha was the See also:capital of the khanate of See also:Shirvan, and was known to the See also:Roman geographer See also:Ptolemy as Kamachia. About the See also:middle of the 16th See also:century it was the seat of an See also:English commercial factory, under the traveller Jenkinson, afterwards See also:envoy extra-See also:ordinary of the See also:khan of Shirvan to See also:Ivan the Terrible of See also:Russia. In 1742 Shemakha was taken and destroyed by See also:Nadir Shah of See also:Persia, who, to punish the inhabitants for their creed (Sunnite Mahommedanism), built a new town under the same name about 16 m. to the W., at the See also:foot of the See also:main See also:chain of the See also:Caucasus. The new Shemakha was at different times a See also:residence of the khan of Shirvan, but it was finally abandoned, and the old town rebuilt. The Russians first entered Shirvan in 1723, but soon retired. In 1795 they captured Shemakha as well as Baku; but the See also:conquest was once more abandoned, and Shirvan was not finally annexed to Russia until 18o5.

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