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, the cultural capital of the country, administrative center of the Shusha District
  • Also known as: “Panahabad” and “Shushi”

Places of Interest

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

Church
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Holy Savior Cathedral, commonly referred to as Ghazanchetsots, is an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Shusha in . It is the cathedra of the Diocese of Artsakh of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Castle
Photo: Sefer azeri, CC0.
The Shusha fortress or Shushi fortress is a fortress surrounding the historical centre of Shusha. 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
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The , also called the Great Mosque of Govhar Agha, is a Shia Islam located in the city of Shusha, .

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 The city is controlled by Azerbaijan since 2023; much of the information in this article is likely out of date.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 was 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”
  • Amharic: “ሱሳ”
  • Arabic: “سوسة”
  • Arabic: “شوشا”
  • Arabic: “شوشة”
  • Arabic: “شوشى”
  • Armenian: “Shushe”
  • Armenian: “Շուշա”
  • Armenian: “Շուշե”
  • Armenian: “Շուշի”
  • Asturian: “Shusha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pənahabad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şuşa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şuşi”
  • Basque: “Shusha”
  • Belarusian: “Шуша”
  • Bengali: “সুসা”
  • 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”
  • Gagauz: “Şuşa”
  • Georgian: “შუშა”
  • German: “AZ-SS”
  • German: “Schuscha”
  • German: “Schuschi”
  • German: “Şuşa şəhəri”
  • German: “Şuşa”
  • Greek: “Σουσά”
  • Hausa: “Susa”
  • Hebrew: “שושה”
  • Hindi: “सुसा”
  • Hungarian: “Şuşa”
  • Indonesian: “Shusha”
  • Indonesian: “Susa”
  • Italian: “Shusha”
  • Italian: “Şuşa”
  • Japanese: “シュシャ”
  • Japanese: “スサ”
  • Javanese: “Susa”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shusha”
  • Kazakh: “Суса”
  • Kazakh: “Шуша”
  • Kirghiz: “Суса”
  • Korean: “슈샤”
  • Korean: “슈시”
  • Kurdish: “Şûşa”
  • Latvian: “Šuša”
  • Lithuanian: “Šuša”
  • Malay: “Shusha”
  • Malay: “Susa”
  • Malayalam: “ഷുഷ”
  • Maltese: “Shusha”
  • Maltese: “Şuşa”
  • Mingrelian: “შუშა (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “შუშა”
  • Mongolian: “Шуша”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjusja”
  • Norwegian: “Sjusja”
  • Oromo: “Susa”
  • Ossetian: “Шуша”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਸਾ”
  • Persian: “شهر شوشا”
  • Persian: “شوشا”
  • Persian: “شوشی”
  • Polish: “Shusha”
  • Polish: “Şuşa”
  • Polish: “Szusza”
  • Polish: “Szuszi”
  • Portuguese: “Shusha”
  • Portuguese: “Susa”
  • Pushto: “سوسا”
  • Russian: “Панахабад”
  • Russian: “Шуша”
  • Russian: “Шуши”
  • Scots: “Shusha”
  • Scots: “Shushi”
  • Serbian: “Шуша”
  • Slovenian: “Šuša”
  • Somali: “Susa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شوشا”
  • Spanish: “Shusha”
  • Spanish: “Shushi”
  • Spanish: “Susa”
  • Spanish: “Şuşa”
  • Sundanese: “Shusha”
  • Swahili: “Susa”
  • Swedish: “Sjusja”
  • Swedish: “Sjusji”
  • Swedish: “Şuşa”
  • 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: “Շուշա”
  • Western Armenian: “Շուշի”
  • Western Panjabi: “شوشا”

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