Hajygabul city
Hajigabul district is allocated on southeast Kura-Araz plain. District center – Hajigabul city. Its history is started from IX century. “Hajigabul” word envisages “Let Lord take your pray”. Hajigabul was allocated in a way leading to Mecca and Medina, places of pilgrimage of Muislims. Long way of prayers could not take without rules, for which those places were very convenient.
In XV century on place of existed Hajigabul city veside similar named lake it was erected caravanserai (palace) by Shakh Abbas. Durring governing times of Shirvanshakh dynasty it was constructed Makhmudabad city here. Through the city, it was passed The Great Silk Way. From here, caravans were traveled towards Persian Bay. On Kharami Mountain to northwest direction from Hajigabul city in association with employees of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography it was discovered cyclic structure with inscription thereon of petrographies. In the result investigations having been carried out it was cleared out that age of the structure constitutes nearly 5 thousand years. Around structure are rocks with picture of men and fantastic animals, which scientists relate to eneolith and bronzed period.