A city of poets
Poets
Shamakhi gave Azerbaijan great poets. For centuries the word resounded here, literary majlis gathered, and verses were born that were known across the East.
A city of poets
Shamakhi gave Azerbaijan great poets. For centuries the word resounded here, literary majlis gathered, and verses were born that were known across the East.
If Shirvan had a heart, it beat in verse. Shamakhi is one of the main literary centres of Azerbaijani poetry.
Poets
Shamakhi is tied to the great 12th-century poet Khaqani Shirvani and the brilliant satirist Mirza Alakbar Sabir, born here. Their lines live in Azerbaijani culture to this day.
Seyid Azim Shirvani worked here too, and literary majlis gathered where ghazals were recited and the craft of words debated.
Names and the word
Great 12th-century poet, a classic of Azerbaijani and Persian poetry.
Brilliant satirist of the turn of the 20th century, born in Shamakhi.
Poet and enlightener associated with Shamakhi.
Literary gatherings in which the city's poetry lived.
Poets
Earthquakes brought down houses, but they could not destroy verse. The poetry of Shamakhi proved stronger than stone — passed from mouth to mouth and from one generation to the next.
The names of Shamakhi's poets are borne today by streets, schools and monuments — the city remembers its sons.
Biographies and the spelling of names vary across sources; the commonly accepted information is given here.