Location | Chișinău, Moldova |
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Type | Monument |
Completion date | 2005 |
Dedicated to | Nizami Ganjavi |
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The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi , a medieval Persian poet, is located in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, in a park named after Nizami Ganjavi. [1] Akif Asgarov, Honoured Art Worker of Azerbaijan was a sculptor and Semen Shoyket, Honoured Architect of Moldova was the architect of the monument. [2]
Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet. Nezāmi is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, the Kurdistan region and Tajikistan.
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Chișinău, also known as Kishinev, is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial center, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bâc, a tributary of Dniester. According to the results of the 2014 census, the city proper had a population of 532,513, while the number of population in the Municipality of Chișinău was 662,836. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and its largest transportation hub.
Opening ceremony of the monument was held in spring, 2005, during the official visit of Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan to Moldova. The monument was settled as “a sign of kind relationships between Azerbaijani and Moldavian nations”. The idea of the construction of the monuments belongs to the Congress of Azerbaijanis in Moldova, led by Vugar Novruzov. [2]
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The monument consists of a granite bust of Nizami Ganjavi, portraying the poet in the eastern attire with a turban on his head. A pedestal is made of the red granite and decorated with eastern ornaments. [2] The name of the poet, the dates of his birth and death are written on the pedestal in English.
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