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Shusha

Shusha or Shushi is a city in . This fortified city has long been a cultural center in Karabakh.
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  • Type: City with 1,180 residents
  • Description: city in Azerbaijan
  • Also known as: “Choucha”, “Chouchi”, “Panahabad”, “Shushi”, and “Susa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shusha fortress (1751 year) and Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque.

Castle
Photo: Sefer azeri, CC0.
The Shusha fortress or Shushi fortress is a fortress surrounding the historical centre of Shusha, also called Shushi. The newly conquered castle town was called "Panahabad fortress" named after Panah Ali Khan who together with Melik Shahnazar was the founder of the fort.

Mosque
Photo: Sefer azeri, CC0.
The , also called the Great Juma Mosque of Govhar Agha, is an Azerbaijani Shia Muslim located in the city of Shusha, .

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
The Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque is a in Shusha, . The designation ashaghi refers to the location of the mosque in the lower section of Shusha town, distinguishing it from the , the similarly named mosque located in the upper section of the town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khankendi and Karindag.

Photo: RAFFI YOUREDJIAN, CC BY 3.0.
, formerly Stepanakert, is a nice small city in . The city is controlled by Azerbaijan since 2023; much of the information in this article is likely out of date.

Village
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Dashalty or Karin Tak is a village in the of , in the region of . Until 2020, the village was controlled by the Republic of Artsakh.

Village
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Shosh or is a village in the of , in the region of . Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh.

Shusha

Latitude
39.7606° or 39° 45′ 38″ north
Longitude
46.7478° or 46° 44′ 52″ east
Population
1,180
Elevation
1,339 metres (4,393 feet)
Open location code
8HF8QP6X+64
Open­Street­Map ID
way 879244340
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
147105
Wiki­data ID
Q158903
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Shusha” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shusha”
  • Arabic: “شوشا”
  • Arabic: “شوشة”
  • Armenian: “Shushe”
  • Armenian: “Շուշա”
  • Armenian: “Շուշե”
  • Armenian: “Շուշի”
  • Asturian: “Shusha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pənahabad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şuşa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şuşi”
  • Basque: “Shusha”
  • Belarusian: “Шуша”
  • Bulgarian: “Шуша”
  • Bulgarian: “Шуши”
  • Catalan: “Şuşa, Shusha”
  • Catalan: “Xuixa”
  • Cebuano: “Shusha”
  • Cebuano: “Shushi”
  • Central Kurdish: “شووشە”
  • Chechen: “Шуша”
  • Chinese: “舒沙”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şuşa”
  • Croatian: “Šuša”
  • Croatian: “Şuşa”
  • Czech: “Šuša”
  • Czech: “Şuşa”
  • Danish: “Şuşa”
  • Dutch: “Shoesha”
  • Dutch: “Shoeshi”
  • Dutch: “Shoushi”
  • Dutch: “Shusha”
  • Dutch: “Shushi”
  • Dutch: “Sjoesja”
  • Dutch: “Sjoesji”
  • Dutch: “Šuša”
  • Dutch: “Şuşa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شوشه”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝuŝa”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝuŝi”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝuŝo”
  • Estonian: “Şuşa”
  • Estonian: “Šuši”
  • Finnish: “Shusha”
  • Finnish: “Shushi”
  • Finnish: “Şuşa”
  • Finnish: “Šuši”
  • French: “Choucha”
  • French: “Chouchi”
  • French: “Schouscha”
  • French: “Shusha”
  • French: “Şuşa”
  • Gagauz: “Şuşa”
  • Georgian: “შუშა”
  • German: “AZ-SS”
  • German: “Schuscha”
  • German: “Schuschi”
  • German: “Şuşa şəhəri”
  • German: “Şuşa”
  • Greek: “Σουσά”
  • Hebrew: “שושה”
  • Hungarian: “Şuşa”
  • Indonesian: “Shusha”
  • Indonesian: “Susa”
  • Italian: “Shusha”
  • Italian: “Shushi”
  • Italian: “Sowsi”
  • Italian: “Šowši”
  • Italian: “Šuša”
  • Italian: “Şuşa”
  • Italian: “Šuši”
  • Japanese: “シュシャ”
  • Korean: “슈샤”
  • Korean: “슈시”
  • Kurdish: “Şûşa”
  • Latvian: “Šuša”
  • Lithuanian: “Šuša”
  • Malay: “Shusha”
  • Malayalam: “ഷുഷ”
  • Maltese: “Shusha”
  • Maltese: “Şuşa”
  • Mingrelian: “შუშა (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “შუშა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjusja”
  • Norwegian: “Sjusja”
  • Ossetian: “Шуша”
  • Persian: “شهر شوشا”
  • Persian: “شوشا”
  • Persian: “شوشی”
  • Polish: “Shusha”
  • Polish: “Şuşa”
  • Polish: “Szusza”
  • Polish: “Szuszi”
  • Portuguese: “Shusha”
  • Russian: “Панахабад”
  • Russian: “Шуша”
  • Russian: “Шуши”
  • Scots: “Shusha”
  • Scots: “Shushi”
  • Serbian: “Шуша”
  • Slovenian: “Šuša”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شوشا”
  • Spanish: “Shusha”
  • Spanish: “Shushi”
  • Spanish: “Şuşa”
  • Sundanese: “Shusha”
  • Swedish: “Sjusja”
  • Swedish: “Sjusji”
  • Swedish: “Şuşa”
  • Tagalog: “Shusha”
  • Tajik: “Шуша”
  • Tajik: “Шӯша”
  • Tamil: “சூசா நகரம், அசர்பைஜான்”
  • Tamil: “சூசா”
  • Tatar: “Шуша”
  • Turkish: “Şuşa”
  • Turkmen: “Şuşa”
  • Ukrainian: “Шуша”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Šuša”
  • Urdu: “شوشا”
  • Uzbek: “Shusha”
  • Vietnamese: “Shusha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shusha”
  • Welsh: “Shusha”
  • Western Armenian: “Շուշա”
  • Western Armenian: “Շուշի”
  • Western Panjabi: “شوشا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Shusha”. Photo: John Steedman, CC BY 2.0.