Ganja

Ganja is Azerbaijan's 2d largest city, with a populace of around 332,six hundred. It was named Elisabethpol within the Russian Empire length. The city regained its unique name, Ganja, in 1920 in the course of the primary part of its incorporation into the Soviet Union. However, its call turned into modified again in 1935 to Kirovabad and retained that call through maximum of the rest of the Soviet period. In 1989, for the duration of perestroika, the town regained its unique call. According to medieval Arabic resources, the city of Ganja changed into based in 859-60 by using Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mazyad, the Arab governor of the region inside the reign of the caliph al-Mutawakkil, and so-called because of a treasure unearthed there.

According to the legend, the Arab governor had a dream in which a voice instructed him that there has been a treasure hidden below one of the 3 hills across the location where he camped. The voice informed him to unearth it and use the cash to determined a city. He did so and knowledgeable the caliph approximately the cash and the city. Caliph made Muhammad the hereditary governor of the metropolis on a condition that he would provide the cash he determined to the caliph.