Svinoy, Sangi-Mugan Island or Muğan daşı (Azerbaijani: Səngi Muğan, Russian: Ostrov Svinoy)

 island, place with historical importance, interesting place

Pork Island (Persian campaign S. Razin, 1667-1669). Island on the west coast of the Caspian Sea (south of Baku), in an area which in July 1669 the battle was fought between the fleet led by the Cossack chieftain Razin and Iranian (Persian) fleet under the command of managers Khan.

Persian government of Suleiman I, shah of the Safavid dynasty, tried to stop the action Razin in the Caspian Sea and sent a fleet against him with a detachment in 4 thousand people. headed by a manager Khan. He went to the pig island, where there was a base razinskogo squad (1-2 thousand people).. However, the Cossacks did not flinch. They strongly attacked the Iranian navy and inflicted a crushing defeat. Only three vessels with managers Khan managed to escape. The rest were either sunk or captured by Cossacks.
Captured by Razin got a son and daughter, the Iranian leader. Khan's daughter - a Persian princess became the concubine of a successful leader. The legend about her sad fate served as a story of the famous song "Because of the island to the rod." Despite the convincing victory, the party Razin was not so many, in order to successfully confront the new attack Iranian forces. In addition, the Cossacks suffered from a lack of fresh water and disease. In August 1669 Razin left the coast of Persia, and went in the opposite way to the Don. Battle in pigs island is notable because it was the first in the history of a major Russian military clash with Iran.
The island is part of the Baku archipelago. It is the station automatic monitoring of water pollution.
South Bay Islands is very interesting for underwater archeology.

Another name for the island - Sangi Mugan - translated from the Persian word for word means "Stone of Mage. Magicians in ancient times was called the priests of the Zoroastrian religion, which had been circulated in the territory of Azerbaijan until the Middle Ages.
An important element in this religion is the veneration of the sacred fire. It is noteworthy that close to him is another island with a similar meaning to the name - Ignatius Stone (Ignatius - from the Latin. Ignis «Fire, ie, the Stone of Fire). What tied the Zoroastrian Magi from the island?



One of the earliest references associated with the West coast of the Caspian Sea, are the details of the Byzantine author of the first half of V in. Prisca Pontus, which the Romans with the words describing the path that leads from Scythia in Media mentions of the place "where the sea of ​​stone glowing flame." This evidence undoubtedly belong to the eternal fires of oil and gas fields.



Sangi Mugan stood at an important sea route to the south of the Caspian Sea, as well as to enter the river Kura, which attracted sailors of the Middle Ages. Mention it, Arab and other authors who have left information about the naval campaigns across the West in the Caspian IX-XI centuries. In the area of ​​the island was discovered a large number of anchors of different designs of the early Middle Ages.



Hamdallah Qazwini (1280-1349) in his book "Uslada hearts (Nuzhat al-kulub) indirectly indicates a connection between the islands of the Caspian Sea with zoroastriskoy religion:" In the Caspian Sea about 200 islands ... ... At present, these islands are inhabited only Abaskun (an island off the southern coast of the Caspian Sea - Ed.) and the island of wild sheep (presumably about. Bulla, where gazelles were carried out - Ed.), but the latter is now again deserted ... On the other islands of the sea is told in the writings on cosmogony. Cosmology - area of ​​science and philosophy, which studies the origin of the universe. Extant cosmogonic treatise, in which figures the Caspian Sea, is an ancient Zoroastrian text Bundahishn ("Creation of the fundamentals), which is a transcription of one of the lost Nasco Avesta. In Bundahishne Caspian Sea is mentioned under the name Frahvkard at its center stands a mountain Husandom.