Sumgait

American  

[soom-guh-yeet, soom-gah-eet] / sum gʌˈyit, ˌsum gɑˈit /

Also Sumqayit

noun

1. a city in SE Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea.

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Example Sentences

In response, Azeris set about murdering Armenians in the city of Sumgait and other parts of Azerbaijan.

From Los Angeles Times

The guard of the village school, Tigran Saakyan, recalled the inflection point as his once-friendly attitudes to his Azerbaijani neighbors shifted: the day in 1988 that his cousin arrived, fleeing the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait, where anti-Armenian riots had taken at least 32 lives.

From New York Times

Mr. Danilian is Armenian but was born in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, then a part of the Soviet Union.

From New York Times

When I mentioned this to Mr. Saryan — an Armenian who fled Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, around the time of the anti-Armenian Sumgait pogrom in 1988 — he said he still had nostalgia for Baku, where he had spent most of his life.

From New York Times

Mr. Safarov was given a hero’s welcome in Azerbaijan, where thousands of people took to the streets to greet him in his native city, Sumgait.

From New York Times