Talk:Absheron District

Should the peninsula and the rayon be separated?
This article spends its time talking about the history and origin of the peninsula, but the map shows that the rayon barely touches the geographic feature due to the size of the Baku and Sumgait territories. I have made the image to the right highlighting of just the peninsula. I was about to create its own article, but then I realized there would be nothing left in this article if I did. Any suggestions? -- Bobak 17:14, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The articles about the rayon and the peninsula should probably be split. --Golbez 18:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm going to defer making the changes to those who are more familiar with the two regions and what should go where. Feel free to use the image at right, of course :-) --  Bobak 19:13, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I don't mind you making it. You cited my work, which, I do believe, is the first time a derivative work of one of my maps has ever mentioned where it came from. ;) As for separating, it seems to make sense. Labrador and Labrador Peninsula; San Francisco and San Francisco Peninsula; Italy and Italian Peninsula; etc. It also is a notable point that the Absheron rayon makes up very little of the Absheron peninsula. :) As for what should go where, I'll take a look at it. --Golbez 20:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Tati was the language of Absheron???? Who was this sick person to write this paranoia?
 * Actually only three out of more than 40 villages was ever tat speaking and still some sick people claim that! I am from Absheron and my family never spoke tat!--Elsanaturk 13:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 12:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

– In the English language it is more common for these entities to be called "District". See below. Same problem as with Raions in Ukraine. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 07:02, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Absheron Rayon → Absheron District
 * Agdam Rayon → Agdam District
 * Agdash Rayon → Agdash District
 * Aghjabadi Rayon → Aghjabadi District
 * Agstafa Rayon → Agstafa District
 * Agsu Rayon → Agsu District
 * Astara Rayon → Astara District
 * Babek Rayon → Babek District
 * Balakan Rayon → Balakan District
 * Barda Rayon → Barda District
 * Beylagan Rayon → Beylagan District
 * Bilasuvar Rayon → Bilasuvar District
 * Dashkasan Rayon → Dashkasan District
 * Fizuli Rayon → Fizuli District
 * Gadabay Rayon → Gadabay District
 * Gobustan Rayon → Gobustan District
 * Goranboy Rayon → Goranboy District
 * Goychay Rayon → Goychay District
 * Goygol Rayon → Goygol District
 * Hajigabul Rayon → Hajigabul District
 * Imishli Rayon → Imishli District
 * Ismailli Rayon → Ismailli District
 * Jabrayil Rayon → Jabrayil District


 * Statistics - I use "site:az" to filter out non-English texts and Wikipedia and its clones.
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22absheron+district%22+site%3Aaz 91,700 results
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22absheron+rayon%22+site%3Aaz 52 results
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22fizuli+district%22+site%3Aaz 1,190 results
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22fizuli+rayon%22+site%3Aaz 673 results
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gazakh+district%22+site%3Aaz
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gazakh+rayon%22+site%3Aaz 7 results Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 07:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Category:Districts of Azerbaijan is already using "District". Also the article Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan talks of districts and gives rayonlar as translation. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 07:09, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per and terminology at Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan. --BDD (talk) 18:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. "Absheron district" is used in this IMF report. Kauffner (talk) 17:17, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.