[3] Being the most northeastern region of Azerbaijan, Khachmaz is between the Caucasus Mountains and borders Caspian Sea to the east.

[4] Ethnic groups in Khachmaz (2009) According to the State Statistical Committee of the country, in 2000, the total number of population of the region was 145,6.

Some of the most significant are Sarkartapa, the ancient city-fortress Khudat, a 4th-century Albanian church, the 16th-century mosque-madrasa of Shah Abbas of the 15th-16th century in Garaqurtlu, a village in Khachmaz, ancient settlements and the barrows of the Bronze Age, the famous “Iron gate” of Derbent fortress becoming a symbol of its inaccessibility.

The fortifications “Baba-al-Abvat” were constructed in the 8th-7th centuries B.C and protected from invasion of the northern boundaries of Azerbaijan.

In the village of Shykhlar the tourists can see the earliest monument of the mausoleum of the Middle Ages- a mosque of Sheikh Yusif (15th century).