Amax

Amax or AMAX may refer to:

AMAX

AMAX is an American certification program developed by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in 1993. This quality control program addressed both consumer receiver developments and air chains of broadcast AM transmission stations. Tuners and receivers offering AMAX Stereo were designed to capture the widest audio frequency response and stereo separation of AM stereo broadcasts, where available.

Prerequisites

AMAX Stereo products are not widely available to the public. To qualify for AMAX certification, the AM receivers must have the following features:

Shamakhi

Şamaxı (also, known as Shamakhi) is a city in and the capital of the Shamakhi Rayon of Azerbaijan. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence. The city's estimated population as of 2010 was 31,704. It is famous for its traditional dancers, the Shamakhi Dancers, and also for perhaps giving its name to the Soumak rugs.

In its history eleven major earthquakes have rocked Shamakhi, but through multiple reconstructions it maintained its role as the economic and administrative capital of Shirvan and one of the key towns on the Silk Road. The only building to have survived eight of the eleven earthquakes is the landmark Juma Mosque of Shamakhi, built in the 10th century.

History

Shamakhi was first mentioned as Kamachia by the ancient Greco-Roman Egyptian geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus in the 1st to 2nd century CE.

Shamakhi was an important town during the Middle Ages and served as a capital of the Shirvanshah state from the 8th to 15th centuries and the capital of the Shirvan Khanate, which was also known as the khanate of Shemakha. From the early 16th century up to the early course if the 19th century, the town was part of the various Iranian empires, starting with the Safavids, then the Afsharids, and lastly the Qajars, until the town was conquered and annexed in 1805 by Imperial Russia during the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813). Iran officially ceded irrevocable suzerainty over Shamakhi to Russia conform the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 which ended the 1804-1813 war, thus making the town switch after centuries to Russian rule, for a period up to the fall of the Soviet Union.