Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "История Гянджи" in Russian language version.
The post-Mongol historian Ḥamd-Allāh Mostawfī says that the Arab town of Ganja was founded in 39/659-60 (i.e., at the time of the first Arab incursions into eastern Transcaucasia) but gives no details (Nozhat al-qolūb, p. 91, tr. p. 93).
A passage of the anonymous Taʾrīḵ Bāb al-abwāb (extant in the Ottoman historian Monajjem-bāšī’s Jāmeʿ al-dowal) states that Ganja was founded in 245/859-60 by Moḥammad b. Ḵāled b. Yazīd b. Mazyad, of the family of Yazīdī governors in Šarvān, who was governor of Azerbaijan, Arrān, and Armenia for the caliph al-Motawakkel, and so-called because of a treasure unearthed there…
Moḥammad b. Ḵāled’s role as founder (or rather, as re-founder, see below) of Ganja is confirmed by the Armenian historian Movsēs Dasxurancʿi, where he says that the son of Xazr (for Xald, as explained by Marquart, p. 462) Patgos built Ganjak in the canton of Aršakašēn, with the date given in one manuscript as Armenian era 295/846-47 (bk. 3, ch. 20, tr. Dowsett, p. 218).
The post-Mongol historian Ḥamd-Allāh Mostawfī says that the Arab town of Ganja was founded in 39/659-60 (i.e., at the time of the first Arab incursions into eastern Transcaucasia) but gives no details (Nozhat al-qolūb, p. 91, tr. p. 93).
A passage of the anonymous Taʾrīḵ Bāb al-abwāb (extant in the Ottoman historian Monajjem-bāšī’s Jāmeʿ al-dowal) states that Ganja was founded in 245/859-60 by Moḥammad b. Ḵāled b. Yazīd b. Mazyad, of the family of Yazīdī governors in Šarvān, who was governor of Azerbaijan, Arrān, and Armenia for the caliph al-Motawakkel, and so-called because of a treasure unearthed there…
Moḥammad b. Ḵāled’s role as founder (or rather, as re-founder, see below) of Ganja is confirmed by the Armenian historian Movsēs Dasxurancʿi, where he says that the son of Xazr (for Xald, as explained by Marquart, p. 462) Patgos built Ganjak in the canton of Aršakašēn, with the date given in one manuscript as Armenian era 295/846-47 (bk. 3, ch. 20, tr. Dowsett, p. 218).
Жителей в Елизаветполе в 1892 году насчитывалось 25 758 (татар-мусульман 13 392, армян 10 524), домов 4053, лавок 1000. Православных церквей 2, армяно-григорианских — 6, мечетей — 13; учебных заведений — 10 (в том числе гимназия), караван-сараев — 7; аптека — 1, типографий — 2, гостиниц — 4, клубов — 2 и бань — 7.
