Alinja

Alinja (also rendered as "Alıncak"; ; ) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

==History== Alinja is mentioned in historical records for the first time in the seventh century atlas, the Ashkharhatsuyts, commonly attributed to Anania Shirakatsi, under its original Armenian name, Yernjak. It is described as the first district of the Kingdom of Armenia's province of Syunik'. The ruins of the medieval Yernjak (or Ernjak) fortress, which dates to the seventh century, are located on a crag overlooking Alinja village. This fortress once controlled and gave its name to, Yernjak province, which comprised the whole valley down to the Araks river. A separate Armenian tradition states that the province was named after Lady Yernjik, a member of the royal family of the Syunik' princes. An Azerbaijani tradition formulated much later, attributed the town's name to a tribe supposedly called the Azari.