The First Oil Boom in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and Its Impact on the Cosmopolitan Nature of Baku – American Research Institute of the South Caucasus

Edited from: “Baku: From Cosmopolitan City to National Capital of Azerbaijan”
by Shamkhal Abilov, Qafqaz University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation.

Keywords: oil, Baku, ethnic minorities, religion, Jews, Russians, Armenians

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