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		The Absheron peninsula and contiguous islands with their ever burning fires on land and on the sea, with a great number of lakes filled with unique fish, plantations of unusual delicious grape and hurricane or stormy winds impressed a primitive man as an ideal place for original cults of fire, water, wind and haoma.
		This route was to cross Gobustan, Shaban, Sabail, Baku, Surahana, Mastaga, Mardakan, Shakan, Absheron (village), Turkan to Pirallahi.
		Absheron with its eternal fires and numerous lakes played such a great role in the development of Zoroastrianism that the time is now ripe to establish a monument to Zoroaster, especially as some researchers believe that Absheron was the motherland of Zoroaster.
	www.azerbaijan-irs.com /irs/viewer.php?id=000203 (2634 words)

	Tourism in Azerbaijan
		If the shape of Azerbaijan on a map is similar to a bird flying towards the sea then the bird's "beak" would be the Absheron peninsula with an ancient and ever young city situated on its southwest coast.
		Even though administratively Baku is separated from Absheron suburb settlements (in a total number of 32), historically they are indivisibly linked to the capital both in cultural and economical as well as in geographical terms.
		The climate of Baku and Absheron is of temperate warm semideserts and steppes with Absheron-specific winds.
	azerbaijan.tourism.az /tr01.html (2352 words)

	Tourism in Azerbaijan
		Absheron castle complex as a rule included a palace of the ruler, khan or commander, a mosque and a fortress.
		The main reason why the defense of Absheron in the twelfth century was paid so much attention to was the assaults of Russian sea pirates coming to the Absheron Peninsula from north.
		Thus, the fortification system of castles and towers in the Absheron Peninsula substituted a system of mountain fortresses that was used to protect northern borders of the country.
	azerbaijan.tourism.az /arpamyat/castfold/Ct.html (2223 words)

	Absheron (Azerbaijan. The Land of Arts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Azerbaijan's territory on a map is shaped reminding a bird, which flies to the east with widely opened wings.
		The Absheron peninsula is the head of this bird.
		In the starting period of the medieval history, Absheron, just same as the majority of territories of this region, was under political influence of Iran.
	azerbaijan.aznet.org /azerbaijan/absher1.html (967 words)

	Absheron National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Absheron National Park was established in 783-hectare area of administrative territory of Azizbeyov district of Baku city on the base of Absheron State Nature Preserve.
		Establishment of Absheron National Park contributes to protection and restoration of unique nature complexes and objects, specially in the area where Caspian seal is spread mostly, gazelles, as well water and marsh birds.
		Creation of Absheron National Park is also regular example of purposeful actions taken in field of effective use of natural resources, growth of attention and care to the environment, formation of new ecological mind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Absheron_National_Park (380 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Chevron postpones decision for drilling in Absheron gas field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chevron has not discussed paying compensation to the Azeri government, which it would be required to do if it did not drill a second well as stipulated in its contract, Connor said.
		He said the Absheron consortium is under no pressure to take a decision because the rig needed to drill a second well will not become available until the second half of 2004.
		The Absheron well was one of a series of drilling disappointments this year in Azerbaijan's sector of the Caspian, which was being trumpeted a few years ago as having the potential to become the next Kuwait.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnc13953.htm (264 words)

	Towers of Absheron, Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Its outlines repeat the relief contours of the hill, on which it is constructed, and in the plan makes neither rectangle, nor circle.
		On Absheron there were many temples of Fire as well.
		In the center of a temple there is an altar, where the fire is coming out of the soil, and there are cells along the walls - nooks, where lodgers and servants of the temple lived.
	www.azerbaijan24.com /towers_of_apsheron (1459 words)

	Lithofacies Zonation of Lower Pliocene Productive Series Sediments, South Caspian Basin, by Elmira Aliyeva and Dadash ...
		The Absheron type of PS sediments (the so called disthene - ilmenite province) cover almost all of the Absheron Peninsula, the Absheron archipelago and the northern part of the Baku archipelago, with a maximum thickness of up to 5000m in the South-Absheron trough.
		Space distribution of Absheron type sediments is significantly changed in separate stages of PS accumulation and is dependent on Caspian Sea level fluctuations which have resulted in basinward/landward facial shifts and wide depositional environment changes from fluvial, deltaic to lacustrine setting.
		According to observations of the Lower Kura sediments exposed at Babazanan and Kichik Kharami, which are coeval to the Surakhany Suite in the Apsheron lithofacial zone, the stratigraphic architecture is dominated by ~ 10 m thick, amalgamated, channelised sandstones and overbank sediments.
	www.searchanddiscovery.net /documents/abstracts/2004hedberg_baku/extended/aliyeva01/aliyeva01.htm (1321 words)

	Castles and Towers of Absheron - Castles and Towers of Absheron - Monuments - Baku Pages
		The Absheron peninsula, being a part of Shirvan, was the site for a peculiar type of defensive structures to have originated and developed due to special social, historical and natural conditions.
		Vast Gobustan semideserts separating the peninsula from the inland country, relatively distant caravan routes, valuable oil and salt resources, and abundant madder and saffron fields the latter being the main export from of old, were the aspects that determined the peculiar development of Absheron and its certain economical and political isolation.
		The sparse line of castles in inland part of Absheron could serve some kind of link between the main group of the castles and the Baku citadel but actually they were not an integral defensive system, as it could have seemed, since the castles date to different years of XII and XIII cent.
	www.bakupages.com /pages/monuments/9633_en.php (494 words)

	Silk Road Tours - Caucasus - Azerbaijan - Absheron Peninsula
		Azerbaijan is shaped like an eagle flying from west to east with the Absheron Peninsula forming the head of the eagle.
		The present temple was built in the 18th century by Parsee merchants from India trading with Baku, althrough it stands on the site of a much earlier temple.
		Dotted around the Absheron Peninsula are numerous medieval fortresses, which in the Middle Ages used to form part of an integral defence system of the area.
	www.silkroadandbeyond.co.uk /absheronpeninsula.html (175 words)

	BakuSun
		He is a veteran observer of his native Absheron, especially of the life-giving Caspian Sea that surrounds it, and hopes that his work will inspire admiration, respect and care for the environment he loves.
		MirTeyyub Khalilov celebrates his golden jubilee as an artist with paintings of the restless dynamism of the Caspian, the solidity of the rocky, northern shores of the Absheron, and the relationships between the landscape and its inhabitants.
		The works are notable for their keen observation and feeling for the land and seascapes, of which people are a necessary component: as users, enjoyers or simply as observers of their native environment.
	www.bakusun.az /cgi-bin/ayten/bakusun/show.cgi?code=10500 (702 words)

	Chevron Signs Accord With Azerbaijan to Hunt for Oil in Caspian Sea
		"Chevron is eager to explore Absheron and to combine our technological experience with that of SOCAR to determine the potential of this challenging deep-water prospect," Matzke added.
		Absheron, formerly known as the Tagiyev Block, lies in close proximity -- 40 kilometers southwest -- of Azerbaijan's giant Guneshli-Azeri-Chirag multi-oil field complex, and covers an area of approximately 160 square miles (400 square kilometers).
		While exploration of the Absheron prospect represents Chevron's first major oil venture in Azerbaijan, the company has had a presence in the northern Caspian region through Tengizchevroil, the joint venture company which operates the Tengiz oil field in Kazakstan.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/8-1-97/289933&EDATE= (406 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - ChevronTexaco and TotalFinaElf close work on Absheron structures
		ChevronTexaco decided to pull out of the Absheron project in February 2003 because commercial reserves were not discovered when the first well was drilled in the summer of 2001.
		Initially, the company predicted Absheron would have gas supplies of 300 bn cm and oil reserves of 220 mm tons.
		A PSA contract to develop the Absheron structures was signed in August 1997 in Washington.
	www.gasandoil.com /GOC/company/cnc35015.htm (295 words)

	Amazon.com: "Absheron Peninsula": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wells were already being dug on the Absheron Peninsula at an average depth of 10 to 12 meters.
		On the Absheron peninsula, archaeolo- gists suggest that 6000 years ago, remark- ably advanced men were building conical homes around a hollow central pillar...
		The Absheron Peninsula, on which Baku is situated, was first settled in 8000 B.C.E. by hunter gatherers from the Caucasus Mountains.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Absheron-Peninsula (615 words)

	Music (Azerbaijan. The Land of Arts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Absheron peninsula in general plays an irreplaceable role in development and distribution of the Azerbaijan music genres based on the oral tradition.
		In XIX century in connection with detection of oil on Absheron the city infrastructure started to be developed more and more; many creative people from all ends of Azerbaijan begun to flow down to Baku.
		The adherence to Meyhana especially is inherent among the music fans of Baku and Absheron.
	azerbaijan.aznet.org /azerbaijan/abs_mus.html (629 words)

	Absheron Drilling Rig Semisub Specification - Subsea.Org
		Absheron Rig owned by Socar is a Semisub type of drilling rig.
		The Absheron Semisub can operate at water depths up to 650 ft and drill down to approximately 19,685 ft.
		Absheron drilling information given here at the subsea oil and gas directory may contain errors, be incorrect, incomplete or not fully updated.
	www.subsea.org /drilling-rigs/rigspec.asp?rigID=939 (138 words)

	Caspian Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The oil and gas bearing deposits of the Absheron and Baku archipelagos are characterized by the presence of large promising structures.
		Within Azeri sector of the Caspian Sea, Absheron archipelago and the northern part of Baku archipelago refer to the most studied areas, while the southern part of Baku archipelago, the deepwater portion of Azeri sector of South Caspian and Azeri part of Middle Caspian have been explored comparatively purely.
		Under two contracts for development of the Nakhichevan and Absheron areas, 3D seismic exploration was conducted, the seismic data were processed and interpreted.
	www.caspenergy.com /no2rus5.html (2310 words)

	Oil in Azerbaijan
		A well is dug by hand on the Absheron Peninsula to a depth of 35 meters.
		Hand dug wells continued to be used for the production of oil on Absheron until 1872.
		Exploration and development began in some of the largest fields known to exist in the world at that time on Absheron near the villages of Balakhanii, Sabunchi, Ramana and Bibi Heybat.
	members.tripod.com /azmsa/oil.html (2039 words)

	9.1 Petroleum Section: Chevron Meets with President Aliyev
		Chevron's interest in regard to accessing the BTC pipeline is related to the possible discovery of liquid hydrocarbons in the Absheron Block.
		The Absheron block is situated about 100 kilometers southeast of Baku at a depth of 520 meters.
		In January 2001, Chevron Overseas Petroleum Azerbaijan Limited, operating the Absheron PSA for Chevron, TotalFinaElf and SOCAR, signed a Rig Utilization Agreement (RUA) for the shared use of a new rig on the Absheron Block along with the Nakhchivan and Zafar-Mashal prospects, which are operated by ExxonMobil.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/91_folder/91_articles/91_petroleum_chevron.html (532 words)

	staff of the garden
		Main scientific results: The bioecology of rare and endangered plants was studied and the agrotechnical methods of using perspective species in greening of Azerbaijan Republic were elaborated.
		About 500 Geophytes in Absheron conditions were collected, 125 species of this collection are included into "Red book", and more than 250 species are offered to use in economy.
		The structural peculiarities of some introduced to Absheron xerophytes and ecological bases of their culture.
	www.aznabatat.com /eng/crew.html (955 words)

	Center of Economic Reforms
		The main purpose of the research is to ensure the complete and effective use of current economic potential of Absheron region and to prepare a complex social-economic development program on this base that directed to increase the social-economic level.
		As a conclusion of intended works the project of complex social-economic development program of the region will be prepared and the presentation with participation of interested parts will be held.
		In general the research project results in an acceleration of social-economic development through the stimulation of economic reforms that are conducted in the country including Absheron region at the present time.
	www.cer.az /site_eng/xeber00002.htm (146 words)

	Azerbaijan Hotel - Hotel Absheron Baku Azerbaijan
		Welcome to the nationally well known in Azerbaijan –16 floors/ Absheron Hotel Baku which has been built and opened in 1985, going to be First Class and Premiere Business Class Hotel in Baku located in the heart of City.
		Rooms have a beautiful view of the city, the Boulevard and Baku Bay which are the main sights of Absheron peninsula.
		The hotel is situated in 20 minutes from International Airport of Azerbaijan,by car- 25 km., 20-25 minutes from Hotel, walk to the central business and shopping street “Nizami”, The closest subway stations are: Sakhil and 28 –Th of May; Staff of the hotel consists of qualified employees of hotel industry.
	www.southtravels.com /middleeast/azerbaijan/hotelabsheron/index.html (620 words)

	Breakdown in Absheron sub-station - AssA-Irada - Baku Pages
		A breakdown hit the Absheron power sub-station in Khyrdalan, 40 km off Baku, in the early hours of Wednesday, as a stormy wind felled down a 500-kilovolt electricity transmission line, Azerenergy said in a statement Wednesday.
		This second Absheron line from the Azerbaijan Regional Power Station is intended to energize Baku and its environs.
		There are three more high-voltage cables to supply Absheron Peninsula with electricity.
	www.bakupages.com /pubs/ai/7503_en.php (132 words)

	Straus
		At least taking into account the experience of the creation of the unusual “ostrich” economy which is ruled by the Azerbaijan businessman Ali Bayramov, nevertheless its possible.
		The first farm on ostriches breeding in pour country appeared a year ago in Khirdalan district of Absheron peninsula.
		At the present time hundreds of ostriches are kept in the comfortable open-air cages of the farm.
	www.straus-az.com /index_en.php?n=2 (745 words)

	AZERBAIJAN - Onshore Absheron JV. \| Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting > Support Activities for Agriculture ...
		In January 2001 LUKoil and Socar signed an agreement for exploration in an onshore area on the Absheron peninsula by the Russian company.
		With the agreement finalised by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia, LUKoil also helped the Azeri side on working out guidelines for a demarcation of the economic borders in the Caspian Sea between Baku and Moscow.
		The offshore Absheron gas PSA was signed in Washington in 1997 for a JV led of ChevronTexaco (30%), Total (20%) and Socar (50%).
	www.allbusiness.com /mining/oil-gas-extraction-crude-petroleum-natural/173080-1.html (479 words)

	Azerbaijan images: 5 - Baku outskirts - Absheron peninsula - Baki Sahari - Travel-Images.com
		Surakhany - Absheron peninsula: Ateshgah fire temple - outside
		Gurgan - Absheron peninsula: oil pipeline and electricity cables from Pirallahi island
		Bilgah - Absheron peninsula: Amburan resort - Cape Amburan
	www.travel-images.com /az-images5.html (228 words)

	Absheron Hotel Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan, Discount rates
		To make a booking at this hotel, please select date, number of nights and currency, using the panel on the left and click SEARCH.
		The Absheron Hotel is ideally located on the Azadlyg Square in front of the Baku seaside boulevard.
		The hotel is close to all main business, administrative and Governmental centres of the city.
	www.select-a-room.com /Supplier.asp?ID=368&CountryID=103&RID=105 (168 words)

	Russian Scientist: Government Knows About UFO Bases - UFO Evidence
		According to Fuad Gasimov, academician and head of the Seismological Department of the National Aerospace Agency the often-sighted space craft have bases deep in the Caspian, one off the north part of the Absheron Peninsula, the other in the north sector of the Caspian Sea.
		The organization sent an expedition to Baku and the Absheron Peninsula, where they discovered UFOs bases around the Nardaran and Pirshagi districts and around the Siyazan water spring.
		The entrances to these bases, he says, are found deep underground.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc987.htm (891 words)

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