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Azerbaijan
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Ganja Region is a region in Azerbaijan that includes the Agdash, Agstafa, Barda, Dashkasan, Gadabay, Goranboy, Khanlar, Qazakh, Samukh, Shamkir, and Yevlakh rayons.
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Formerly named Khanlar (Xanlar) and Helenendorf, founded by German farmers from Bavarian Swabia. Today, the town remains an old German neighbourhood in excellent conditions. A local museum shows the finds (eg bronze weapons, jewels, pottery, etc.) extracted from a large cemetery excavated in 1990. Walk along Sebuhi Haciyev or Heydar Aliyev Street by the Lutheran St. Johanniskirche (Church of Johannes) and see the nicely renovated houses.
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Ganja (Azeri: Gəncə) is a city in the Ganja Region of northwestern Azerbaijan. As a historic city, Ganja was the seat of the Atabegs, and later, its khanate under Persian suzerainty.
Goranboy is a town in the south west of Azerbaijan, in the Ganja Region.
Naftalan is in Ganja Region.
Yevlakh (Evlakh, Евлах, Yevlax, Jevlach) is in Ganja Region of Azerbaijan. It has peaceful parks and its people enjoy walking the embankments of the Kura River in the early evening.
Göygöl National Park (Göygöl Milli Parkı) is in Ganja Region of Azerbaijan.
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