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Absheron Museum of History and Local Studies was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 29 February 2024 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Baku. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Baku was nominated as a Geography and places good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (December 16, 2014, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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The content of City of Winds was merged into Baku on 20 August 2023. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

On 25 August 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Baku, Azerbaijan. The result of the discussion was not moved.

The history section mentions the Pogrom/ethnic murders of the Armenians in 1918, but strangely neglects to mention the one in 1989, which wiped out all Armenians in the city, as indicated in the section on "Ethnic makeup" charts where the Armenian population goes from 16.5% of the city (167,226 people) to 0.02% of the city (378 people). That seems a pretty significant event to gloss over, especially given how recent it was historically. Instead the section jumps from talking about the ethnic makeup in the 1800s, talks about how they're overwhelmingly ethnically Azerbaijani now, then skips over the rest inbetween and talks about general population stats. That seems to be a glaring omission given how it happened

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• Montage of Baku 2019.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 15:52, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]