Shamakhi District
Coordinates: 40°38′N 48°40′E / 40.633°N 48.667°E
Shamakhi or Shamakhy is a raion of Azerbaijan. It is the historical center of the region of Shirvan.
Famous people
- Falaki Shirvani,poet, (1107 Shamakhi - 1157 Shamakhi)
- Khagani Shirvani, poet, (1121/1122 Shamakhi) - 1190 Tabriz
- Imadaddin Nasimi, poet, (1369 Shamakhi) –1417 skinned alive in Aleppo)
- Seyid Azim Shirvani, poet, (10 July 1835 - 1 Iyun 1888)
- Muhammed hadi, poet, (1879 Shamakhi - 1920 Ganja)
- Abbas Sahhat, poet, (1874, Shamakhi – 11 July 1918, Ganja)
- Ziver bey Ahmedbeyov, architect, (1873 Shamakhi - 1925 Bakı)
- Zeynalabdin Shirvani, geographer, historian, ethnographer, philosopher and poet,(16 August 1780, Shamakhy — 1838, near Jeddah),
- Sultan Mejid Qanizade, enlighter, teacher, writer
- Mirza Alakbar Sabir, poet, (30 May 1862, Shamakhy – 12 July 1911, Shamakhy).
