🇦🇿 Agstafa (Ağstafa) is a town, municipality (assigned in 1941) and the capital of the Aghstafa District of Azerbaijan. Agstafa district was established in 1939, abolished in 1959 and merged with Gazakh district, became an independent district again in 1990
History Historical reference books of Agstafa indicate that the city appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century, essentially built as a new town around the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi railway. The town was known initially as Elisavetinka, for the Russian royal, though the station did take its name from a pre-existing small village of Agstafa, which grew more important from 1914 as the junction stop for a new branch line to Yerevan. In 1920, with the region still rocked by the fallout of the 1920 Ganja Revolt, the Treaty of Agstafa was negotiated here between the newly Sovietised Republic of Azerbaijan and the then still-independent Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Agstafa received city status in 1941.
Geographical position There is one city (Aghstafa), 9 settlements (Vurgun, Poylu, Shekarli, Jeyranchol, Saloglu, Soyugbulag, Soyugbulag, Hazi Aslanov, Garayazy) and 29 villages in the region. These settlements are managed by 29 administrative territorial representations and 29 municipalities.
Transport Agstafa has a large urban transport system, mostly managed by the Ministry of Transportation.
Transport: Rail The city sits on one of the Azerbaijani primary rail lines running east–west connecting the capital, Baku, with the rest of the country. The Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway will run along the line through the city. The railway provides both human transportation and transport of goods and commodities such as oil and gravel.
Agstafa's Central Railway Station is the terminus for national and international rail links to the city. The Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway, which will directly connect Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, began to be constructed in 2007 and is scheduled for completion in 2015. The completed branch will connect the city with Tbilisi in Georgia, and from there trains will continue to Akhalkalaki, and Kars in Turkey.
Ağstafa has a population of over 21,817 people. Ağstafa also forms the centre of the wider Aghstafa District which has a population of over 88,458 people. It is also a part of the larger Gazakh-Tovuz Region.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Ağstafa has links with:
🇱🇹 Birštonas, Lithuania🇵🇹 Vila Nova de Gaia 41.133
🇺🇸 Clarkstown 41.117
🇺🇸 Clearfield 41.114
Locations Near: Ağstafa 45.45,41.1167
🇦🇿 Tovuz 45.617,40.983 d: 20.4
🇦🇲 Ijevan 45.133,40.867 d: 38.5
🇬🇪 Telavi 45.717,41.75 d: 73.8
🇦🇲 Gavar 45.127,40.359 d: 88.6
🇬🇪 Tbilisi 44.802,41.693 d: 83.9
🇬🇪 Vake-Saburtalo 44.75,41.7 d: 87.3
Antipodal to: Ağstafa -134.55,-41.117
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17026.5
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15427.2
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15607.9
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15313.4
🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 14936.4
🇨🇱 San Pedro de la Paz -73.1,-36.833 d: 14792.5
🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14981.7
🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14981.7
🇨🇱 Concepción -73.05,-36.817 d: 14787.6
🇨🇱 Chiguayante -73.017,-36.917 d: 14789.7