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This map can be found on page 457 of Baedeker's Handbook. This particular copy was made accessible by the Getty Research Institute and HathiTrust. Click here to read the catalog entry. The plans in this collection are annotated and tagged in the…

11. Baku, Capital of Soviet Azerbaijan. A view of the bay from the Fortress.Kyz-kala(Maiden Tower) is seen on the left and the minaret of the Mosque of Synyk-kale on the right. The latter bears an inscription carved out in 1077.

This map can be found on page 451 of Baedeker's Handbook. This particular copy was made accessible by the Getty Research Institute and HathiTrust. Click here to read the catalog entry. The plans in this collection are annotated and tagged in the…

Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.

As careful as we have been to trace and identify the administrative boundaries depicted on the atlas, at times it is difficult to do either with great confidence. A case in point is that of the oblast' of Bessarabia, in the southwest corner of the…

See the corrections made in red ink.
Bitak was renamed Prigorodnoe in 1945 after the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatar population.