Cəhri
Sign in to saveCəhri (, also, Jahri, Jagry, Dzhagry, and Dzhakhri) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 23 km in the north from the district center, on the bank of the Jahrichay River, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with grain growing, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. There are two secondary schools, two kindergartens, five libraries, three mosques, a children's music school, a club and a hospital in the village. It has a population of 8,454. The settlement of the İşıqlar of the Middle Ages has been recorded in north-east of th
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Place details
- Locality
- Cəhri
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 8,200
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Cəhri
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous republic
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nakhchivan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Babek
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 8454
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Historical and archaeological monuments
- İşıqlar
- Kəndtəpə
- Armenian churches
- Notable people
- See also
- References
Cəhri (, also, Jahri, Jagry, Dzhagry, and Dzhakhri) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 23 km in the north from the district center, on the bank of the Jahrichay River, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with grain growing, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. There are two secondary schools, two kindergartens, five libraries, three mosques, a children's music school, a club and a hospital in the village. It has a population of 8,454. The settlement of the İşıqlar of the Middle Ages has been recorded in north-east of the village of Jahri.
==History== The area was inhabited since early centuries, the settlements where located in the territory of the village. The remaining ruins of the settlements of the Ishyqlar, Kandtapa, Uzuntapa, Goshatapa, Garajalar, Ayriarch show the ancient history of the village of the Jahri. During the reign of the Arshakuni dynasty, Jahuk was the central settlement of the 14th province of Syunik province of Greater Armenia. Later, Jahuk came under the rule of Orbelian princes. After the Orbelians, it passed to the Proshyan princes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cəhri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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