^Roberts, Sophy (2010-05-14).
"Baku's new image". Baku: Financial Times.
Archived from the original on 2022-04-20. Retrieved 2022-03-20. These mansions were bankrolled by the oil barons of the 1900s during the first oil boom when Baku was known as the Paris of the east, the country's oil fields then responsible for half the world's oil production.
^Mody, Devanshi (28 August 2011).
"Esfahan-Paris of the East". Sunday Times. Sri Lanka.
Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^Roberts, Sophy (2010-05-14).
"Baku's new image". Baku: Financial Times.
Archived from the original on 2022-04-20. Retrieved 2022-03-20. These mansions were bankrolled by the oil barons of the 1900s during the first oil boom when Baku was known as the Paris of the east, the country's oil fields then responsible for half the world's oil production.
^Mody, Devanshi (28 August 2011).
"Esfahan-Paris of the East". Sunday Times. Sri Lanka.
Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2022.