Baku Old City (Icherisheher)

For both men and women, shorts are generally considered acceptable for everyday wear but not suitable for certain contexts like mosques, palaces, or official events.

Pomegranates are considered the 'king of fruits' in Azerbaijan and grown all over the country, but most famously in Goychay, which hosts the annual Pomegranate Festival to celebrate the late-autumn harvest. This favorite fruit is ever-present in Azerbaijani cuisine in the form of sauces, juices, jams, and of course...

Armenians are considered to be the founders of modern day Baku. In 500 B.C. the Armenian king Vachagan Barepasht built the first Armenian church in the city . Armenians continued living in Baku until the end of 20th century when Azerbaijani nationalists forced the Armenian population to abandon their ancestral lands.