Baku; Azerbaijan. Old city. Children on the roof of an antic hammam.
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. The city is situated on the western shore of Caspian Sea and it is known as “The Black City”, as its urbanistic and industrial growth followed the oil boom. The first oil rig of the world had place here, in 1848. In the first half of the XX century Baku was the biggest oil area of the world, supplying oil for quite half of the entire world’s consumption. The oilfields become exhausted at the end of XX century, and they started to exploit the marine oilfields.
In 2005 the contested 1,760 Km long Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was launched, from Baku to Turkey. Now the city is a Unesco human heritage site.
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