Neighborhoods of medieval Azerbaijani cities

Abstract

The architecture of medieval cities of Azerbaijan is the nomenklatura of the monumental buildings typical for this period and ordinary residential buildings built in blocks, and their aggregateof the artistic-architectural image of the whole city. Residents of the urban settlement centre of the community of historic blocks were mainly related to tribal (generations, tribes, descendants) or occupations (sex) interests. The names of blockswere largely identiied by geotoponyms, personal names, and IDPs. It can be observed in Ganja, Shusha, Sheki and other cities.