Quba (also known as Guba and Kuba) is a city and a rayon in northeastern Azerbaijan. It is located on the Kudyal River at 41.37°N, 48.50°E. Image File history File links Map of Azerbaijan showing Quba rayonu. ... Azerbaijan is divided into: 59 rayons (rayonlar; rayon - singular), 11 cities* (saharlar; sahar - singular), 1 autonomous republic** (muxtar respublika); All listed are rayons (with Rayonu after their name) unless otherwise noted. ...
The fertile region surrounding Quba is best known for its production of apples. Binomial name Malus domestica Borkh. ...
Noted residents
Abbasqulu Bakikhanov (also spelled Bakixanov or Bakikhanli), a 19th century writer, historian and philosopher, is one of most well known men in Azerbaijan and lived in Quba. His museum is located in Amsar, a village in the Quba rayon. Abbasqulu Agha Bakikhanov (1794, Baku - 1846, Makka) was an Azerbaijani writer, historian and philosopher; a descentant of ruling dynasty of Baku Khanate being a nephew of the last Baku Khan. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
With 22.000 inhabitants, Quba is a pleasant town located on the north-eastern slopes of the Shahdag range (part of the Greater Caucasus) at a height of 600m above sea level, on the right bank of the Kudyal river, in front of the jewish town of Krasnaya Sloboda.
Quba is dominated by the 16th-century Tengialty fortress, but most people go to Quba to see the hundreds of apple orchards.
Quba originated in the village of Kudyal, and only became important in the early 18th century as it succeeded Khudat as the capital of a small but ambitious Khanate.
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