Shusha

Shusha or Shushi is a city in . This fortified city has long been a cultural center in Karabakh.
  • Type: City with 1,180 residents
  • Description: city in Azerbaijan, the cultural capital of the country, administrative center of the Shusha District
  • Also known as: “AZ-SS”, “Panahabad”, “Pənahabad”, “Schuschi”, “Shoesha”, “Shoeshi”, “Shoushi”, “Sjoesja”, “Sjoesji”, “Sjusji”, “Ŝuŝa”, “Şuşa şəhəri”, “Şuşa, Shusha”, “Ŝuŝi”, “Šuši”, “Szuszi”, “Панахабад”, “Шуши”, “Շուշա”, “شهر شوشا”, “شوشة”, “شوشى”, and “슈시”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ghazanchetsots Cathedral and Shusha fortress (1751 year).

Church
Photo: Golden, CC BY 4.0.
Holy Savior Cathedral, commonly referred…

Castle
Photo: Sefer azeri, CC0.
The Shusha fortress or Shushi fortress is a fortress surrounding the historical centre of Shusha.

Mosque
Photo: Sefer azeri, CC0.
The , also called the Great…

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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
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Shusha” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shusha”
  • Amharic: “ሱሳ”
  • Arabic: “سوسة”
  • Arabic: “شوشا”
  • Armenian: “Shushe”
  • Armenian: “Շուշե”
  • Armenian: “Շուշի”
  • Asturian: “Shusha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şuşa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şuşi”
  • Basque: “Shusha”
  • Belarusian: “Шуша”
  • Bengali: “সুসা”
  • Bulgarian: “Шуша”
  • Catalan: “Xuixa”
  • Cebuano: “Shusha”
  • Cebuano: “Shushi”
  • Central Kurdish: “شووشە”
  • Chechen: “Шуша”
  • Chinese: “舒沙”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şuşa”
  • Croatian: “Šuša”
  • Croatian: “Şuşa”
  • Czech: “Šuša”
  • Danish: “Şuşa”
  • Dutch: “Şuşa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شوشه”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝuŝo”
  • Estonian: “Şuşa”
  • Finnish: “Şuşa”
  • French: “Choucha”
  • French: “Chouchi”
  • Gagauz: “Şuşa”
  • Georgian: “შუშა”
  • German: “Schuscha”
  • German: “Şuşa”
  • Greek: “Σουσά”
  • Hausa: “Susa”
  • Hebrew: “שושה”
  • Hindi: “सुसा”
  • Hungarian: “Şuşa”
  • Indonesian: “Shusha”
  • Indonesian: “Susa”
  • Italian: “Şuşa”
  • Japanese: “シュシャ”
  • Japanese: “スサ”
  • Javanese: “Susa”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shusha”
  • Kazakh: “Суса”
  • Kazakh: “Шуша”
  • Kirghiz: “Суса”
  • Korean: “슈샤”
  • Kurdish: “Şûşa”
  • Latvian: “Šuša”
  • Lithuanian: “Šuša”
  • Malay: “Shusha”
  • Malay: “Susa”
  • Malayalam: “ഷുഷ”
  • Maltese: “Shusha”
  • Mingrelian: “შუშა (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “შუშა”
  • Mongolian: “Шуша”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjusja”
  • Norwegian: “Sjusja”
  • Oromo: “Susa”
  • Ossetian: “Шуша”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਸਾ”
  • Persian: “شوشی”
  • Polish: “Şuşa”
  • Polish: “Szusza”
  • Portuguese: “Shusha”
  • Portuguese: “Susa”
  • Pushto: “سوسا”
  • Russian: “Шуша”
  • Scots: “Shusha”
  • Serbian: “Шуша”
  • Slovenian: “Šuša”
  • Somali: “Susa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شوشا”
  • Spanish: “Shusha”
  • Spanish: “Susa”
  • Sundanese: “Shusha”
  • Swahili: “Susa”
  • Swedish: “Sjusja”
  • Tagalog: “Shusha”
  • Tajik: “Суша”
  • Tajik: “Шуша”
  • Tajik: “Шӯша”
  • Tamil: “சூசா நகரம், அசர்பைஜான்”
  • Tamil: “சூசா”
  • Tatar: “Суса”
  • Tatar: “Шуша”
  • Turkish: “Şuşa”
  • Turkmen: “Şuşa”
  • Ukrainian: “Шуша”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Šuša”
  • Urdu: “سوسا”
  • Urdu: “شوشا”
  • Uzbek: “Shusha”
  • Uzbek: “Susa”
  • Vietnamese: “Shusha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shusha”
  • Welsh: “Shusha”
  • Western Armenian: “Շուշի”
  • Western Panjabi: “شوشا”

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