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Gobustan State Reserve is rich in archeological monuments. Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape within the reserve, which covers an area of 537 ha, has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances, camel caravans, sun and stars, on average ...
Qobustan (also, Gobustan, Duvannaya, Duvanny, Duvannyy, and Duyannaya) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. [ citation needed ] It has a population of 14,470. Qobustan is best known for being the home to the famous rock petroglyphs and mud volcanoes.
In 1996, by the decree of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR, the mountains were declared as Gobustan State Historical Artistic Preserve. By the decree of the president, the mountains were declared as National Reserve in 2007. [4] For its quality and density of rock art engravings, Gobustan was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
Taking into account the exceptional importance of the complex of material cultural remains found in Gobustan for history and culture, the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic declared Gobustan as a state historical-artistic reserve based on the decision dated September 9, 1966.
Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 600,000 rock paintings, which depict primitive men, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000–20,000 years.
Qobustan or Gobustan may refer to: Gobustan District, Azerbaijan; Qobustan (town), administrative center of Gobustan District, Azerbaijan; Qobustan, Baku, a settlement and municipality in Azerbaijan Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve, World Heritage Site near Qobustan, Baku; Qobustan, Absheron, a village in Azerbaijan
According to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan "On approval of the Model Regulations on Memorial Reserves", the reserve is a state-protected territory and settlements where historical and cultural monuments, archaeological and architectural objects, ethnographic, numismatic, epigraphic, anthropological materials, buildings, memorials, objects related to historical events ...
Gobustan (Azerbaijani: Qobustan) is a town and municipality in and the administrative center of the Gobustan District of Azerbaijan. [2] It has a population of 3,945. In 2009, the town renamed from Maraza to Gobustan. [ 3 ]