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Ganja recent comments:

  • Ganja, Historian (guest) wrote 9 years ago:
    Falcification! Ganja always was, is and will a part of Azerbaijan! So, it belongs to Azerbaijani people, not armenian.
  • Garage, hasan_musa wrote 11 years ago:
    welcome!
  • "Kontinent" Trade Center, Asif (guest) wrote 13 years ago:
    Production zone, please register this area.
  • Ganja, EMIN (guest) wrote 13 years ago:
    I love my city
  • Ganja, Simyorka (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    Historical city!!
  • Ganja, Taley (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    Big city!!
  • Ganja, Ganja (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    Beatiful city!!
  • City Stadium, faxreddin (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    ole ole ole en boyuk bejiktas
  • Госпиталь, Andrey (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    328 Paraborne Regiment
  • Ganja, History Speaks (guest) wrote 18 years ago:
    the city has had a numerically, economically and, culturally significant Armenian community . Among the Armenians, the city is known as Gandzak (Գանձակ). The word Gandzak is likewise associated with the concept of treasure or riches - gandz (Arm. - գանձ). According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services Country Reports, pogroms directed against the Armenian population have taken place in Ganja (Kirovabad) in November, 1988 following the expulsion of Azeris from Armenia The Kirovabad pogrom . The city’s Armenian population (about 1/3 of the whole population) left in 1989, in the process of forced population exchanges that defined the Karabakh conflict . The city's historically important Christian figures include Kirakos Gandzaketsi (Կիրակոս Գանձակեցի, 1201-1271, author of the History of the Armenians , Armenian philosopher Mkhitar Gosh (Մխիթար Գոշ, c.author of the Code of Laws that was used in Armenia, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and Armenian diasporan groups in Europe, and Grigor Paron-Ter (Գրիգոր Պարոն Տեր, 1560-1645) - Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem. Among the modern time's prominent Armenian person's of the city were Russian-Armenian architect Karo Halabyan , secretary of Armenian SSR communist party, President Askanaz Mravyan, Marshall Hovhannes Baghramyan , Chief Marshal Hamazasp Babadzhanian and the Olympic champion Albert Azaryan