Baku Metro station | |||||||||||
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Location | Baku, Azerbaijan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°15′00″N49°29′34″E / 40.25°N 49.4927°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Baku Metro | ||||||||||
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Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Opened | 9 October 2008 | ||||||||||
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Nasimi is a Baku Metro station. It was opened on 9 October 2008. It is named after Imadaddin Nasimi. [1]
Seyid Ali Imadaddin Nasimi, commonly known as Nasimi, was a 14th- and 15th-century Hurufi poet who composed poetry in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic languages. He is regarded as one of the greatest Turkic poets of his time and one of the most prominent figures in Azerbaijani literature.
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Sabail raion is a raion of Baku, located on the Caspian shore. It contains the Old town of Baku and the Baku Boulevard as well as the settlements Badamdar and Bibiheybət, the administrative territorial divisions no. 1 and no. 2, the municipalities of Badamdar, Bibiheybət and Sabail, and is bordered by the raions of Nasimi, Yasamal and Garadagh.
Nasimi rayon is a settlement and raion of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, named after Imadaddin Nasimi and formed on June 13, 1969.
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