Bakus businnes by capital of Azerbaijan

Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, is situated on the West Coast of Caspian Sea. It slopes like an amphitheatre down the southern Apsheron Peninsula into a bay. Baku s history goes back many centuries. The first evidence of settlement there comes from the fifth century A. D. During its long history ancient Baku has seen both prosperity and decline. In the fifteenth centuries it was the capital of the Shirvan state. Maritime trade across the Caspian passed through the port of Baku. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Baku fortress was regarded as one of the strongest in the Transcaucasus and many a bloody battle took place around its walls. As a result of the numerous wars and internecine feudal strife in the eighteenth century Baku lost its status as an administrative centre. By the beginning of the nineteenth century Baku was a typical medieval town enclosed within the fortress with population of around town began to grow rapidly as navigation and trade developed and as the mineral wea