SIGNIFICANCE OF SLAVIC WRITTEN SOURCES IN STUDY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OF GANJA CITY

Abstract

The purpose of the study is research of Slavic written sources, also the archival materials, those have a great importance in the study of the historical past, cultural heritage of Azerbaijan. Especially the military archive’s materials have rich information.

The methods used for this study included historical and comparative research methods, chronological, source method etc.

For the first time various written documents such as the archival sources for the late Middle Ages have been investigated as the important springs in study of historic-cultural heritage of Ganja city. Information about fortress walls, palaces, caravanserais, baths, houses, bridges and other buildings of Azerbaijani cities is preserved in the archive. The documents of the archives are important historical sources in the study of material culture of Azerbaijan during this period. There are many documents in the archive about the history of Ganja Khanate.

The official military documents contain detailed historical information about the economy, culture, demography and political history of the city of Ganja and the Khanate. The materials in the funds of different archives, together with other sources of the researched period, allow to objectively illuminate the study of the history, also cultural heritage of the Ganja Khanate and this ancient city.