Çalxanqala
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Çalxanqala (also, , Chalkhangala and Chalhankala) is a village and municipality in the Kangarli District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 33 km in the north-west from the district center, on the south slope of the Daralayaz ridge. Its population is busy with grain-growing, vine-growing, beekeeping and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, music school, library, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 2,149. It was the last Armenian-populated town in Nakhchivan.
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- Locality
- Çalxanqala
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Çalxanqala
- 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
- Kangarli
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 2149
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Чалхангала
- Population
- 1670
- Image
- Aznaberd.tif
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- native label
- Ազնաբերդ
- Commons category
- Çalxanqala
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- [[Çalxanqala Fortress]]
- Churches and Monasteries
- See also
- References
Çalxanqala (also, , Chalkhangala and Chalhankala) is a village and municipality in the Kangarli District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 33 km in the north-west from the district center, on the south slope of the Daralayaz ridge. Its population is busy with grain-growing, vine-growing, beekeeping and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, music school, library, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 2,149. It was the last Armenian-populated town in Nakhchivan.
==Etymology== The village named after the Fortress of the Çalxanqala (Chalkhangala) of Bronze Age which built up with large rocks near the village. The name of the Fortress made out from the words of Chalkhan // Chelkan (ethnicity) and gala (building) and means "The Fortress which belongs to the chelkans". It is ethno toponym. The Kəmərdağ mountain where the Fortress is located, also sometimes is called as Çalxaşala (Chalkhashala).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Çalxanqala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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