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Baku

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott, World Historical Gazetteer

Last modified Oct 16, 2025 08:41 AM — History

tags: UWHS

An ancient city located on the Caspian Sea. Baku, now in Azerbaijan, was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/46154574

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.395278, 49.882222

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Baku (30 BC - Present) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.

Names:

None

Baku makes connections with:

None

Baku receives connections from:

Uncertain: Gangara same as Baku (unspecified date range)
Maiden Tower (Baku) located at Baku (unspecified date range)
Palace of the Shirvanshahs located at Baku (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and World Historical Gazetteer, 'Baku: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/46154574> [accessed: 14 December 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/46154574 |title=Places: 46154574 (Baku) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 14, 2025 8:54 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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