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Bəhramtəpə

human settlement in Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ4079888 ↗
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Bəhramtəpə (also, Bahramtepe, Agakhanly, Pervomayskoye, and Pervoye Maya; Russian: Бирмай; formerly Bir May) is a village and municipality in the Imishli District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 7,442.

During the Soviet era, the village was known as Bir May (meaning May 1), in honour of the Soviet Labor Day. The village was renamed Bəhramtəpə in 1992.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bəhramtəpə, human and settlement can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4079888. Authority coordinates are 39.738, 47.953. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bəhramtəpə” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.