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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHEMAKHA

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 834 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHEMAKHA , a town of Russian Transcaucasia, in the government of 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
Tatars
  (75%), Armenians and Russians. Shemakha was the
capital
  of the khanate of
Shirvan
 , and was known to the Roman geographer
Ptolemy
  as Kamachia. About the middle of the 16th century it was the seat of an English commercial factory, under the traveller Jenkinson, afterwards
envoy
  extra-
ordinary
  of the
khan
  of
Shirvan
  to Ivan the Terrible of Russia. In 1742 Shemakha was taken and destroyed by Nadir Shah of 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 foot of the main chain of the Caucasus. The new Shemakha was at different times a 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 conquest was once more abandoned, and Shirvan was not finally annexed to Russia until 18o5.


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