Qabala
Qəbələ ( Azerbaijani also Qäbälä, debate about Gäbälä; Russian Габала / Gabala or Габеля / Gabelja until 1991 Куткашен / Kutkaschen ) is a city in the same rayon in Azerbaijan. It is located in the Greater Caucasus, 220 kilometers northwest of Baku, near the rivers and Qaraçay Qoçalançay. Not far from the city operates the radar station Qəbələ Russia, which is used to monitor satellites and rockets.
Economy
The city's economy relies on the production of canned vegetables, tobacco and drying of silkworm cocoons.
Culture and recreation
In the city there is a housed in a former mosque museum on the history of the region, are exhibited in the archaeological finds. Among Greek coins from the time of Alexander the Great. There is also a cultural center in the city from the Soviet era, which is decorated with a large mosaic, several old stone houses and the monument of Rashidbek. In Qəbələ further is a named after Heydar Aliyev Park.
Around 20 kilometers from the town are the ruins of the ancient city Çuxur Qəbələ from the 4th century BC, were discovered in 1959. The city was the ancient capital of the ancient kingdom of Albania before it after the conquest by the ruler of the Sassanid Empire Peroz I after Partaw (then " Perozabad ", pers Perozstadt ) had to be relocated. Even after the ancient Gabala was still an episcopal city, the excavated fortifications probably date from the 5th - 6th Century AD. On a 25 -acre site a city wall were excavated with battlements, gates, guard towers, residential buildings, furnaces and cemeteries. Found artifacts prove trade relations to Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Traffic
The city is connected to the bus network in the country.