Shaki, Azerbaijan

Shaki (; til 1968 kent as Nukha, ; 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,  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

References

Freemit airtins

 Azerbaijan Development Gateway - Sheki 

Category:Populatit places in Azerbaijan