Khan's Garden, Urban park in Ganja, Azerbaijan.
Khan's Garden is a park in Ganja whose lower section was laid out in 1847 on about six hectares. An Ottoman register from 1727 records the older khan's garden at roughly 130 hectares, with 479 plane trees, 404 cypresses and 3,554 fruit trees.
The garden was established before 1588 and was originally connected to the nearby Ganja Fortress. After Russian occupation, part of it was merged with another garden area in the city.
Officially called Khan's Garden, the park is in fact the Sardar Garden, named for Prince Mikhail Vorontsov, the tsar's viceroy in the Caucasus, who had it laid out in 1847. The original Khan's Garden, a resting place of the Ganja khans, was abolished after the Russian invasion, and some of its trees were moved here. Ganja residents still use it as their main recreation spot.
The garden is located southwest of Ganja's central square with shaded pathways running between the trees. Visitors can find relief from intense summer heat and strong winter winds while walking through the space.
Some of the trees in the garden were ordered by Javad Khan from merchants traveling through Ganja on trade routes. These historic specimens carry traces of a trading tradition that once linked the city to distant regions.
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