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The Peninsula of Absheron hasn’t changed its landscape since the early Bronze Age
period. To this day, it features a semi-desert terrain dotted with hills up to 300-400
meters high. The area’s south-western part presents a severe topography due to varying
lithologic rocks such as clays, sands, sandstone and limestone of the Tertiary period.
The peninsula is washed by the Caspian Sea from three sides and is fringed by
substantial Caucasus mountain range from the west. A very peculiar sub-tropical
climate of Absheron is the result of several interactive factors. On the one hand, this
is a mountainous terrain with folded hills clearly visible to the west, whereas in the
east the mountains are abruptly cut by maritime abrasion and covered by the historic
and modern sediments creating a plain terrain. The easternmost part of this lowland
at the Caspian coastline features sand dunes stretching all the way through the
coastline.
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Absheron, Gala Settlement
Gala Archaeological and Ethnographic
Museum Complex