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 | | The descriptions of four Azerbaijan cities (Tabriz, Sultaniya, Khoy and Hamadan) made by the painter and poet Nasukh Matrakchi, a palace architecture, a participant of the military campaign headed by Suleyman Ganuni (1537), a Turkish Sultan, are very valuable from the viewpoint of studying early constructions of city fortresses of Azerbaijan. |
 | | Though in some cases ancient Azerbaijan city-builders used rectangular forms in building city fortresses which were located in the highlands, a steep relief peculiar to that area in a great extent complicated the shape of these, forms. |
 | | On the one hand, such a regression was the result of political separation, economic stagnation of Azerbaijan and of all the Muslim Orient, and a consequence of the general decline of the art of city-building as well. |
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