Maxta

Maxta (also, Makhta, Makhta Kultepe) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 7 km in the north-west from the district center, on the plain. Its population is busy with vine-growing, farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, cultural house and a hospital in the village. It has a population of 2,478. A monument was erected in honor of the compatriots killed in The Great Patriotic War (1941–45). In the north-east of the village, on the right side of the Nakhchivan-Sadarak highway is located the Qarabulaq necropolis of the Iron Age, and on the left side is located the ancient necropolis of Maxta. The municipality consists of the villages of Maxta and Təzəkənd.

==Etymology== According to some researchers, the name is a distorted form of the word of Mandeh. They associated the name of the village with the words of mah (fortress, camp) and deh (village) from the Persian and explain it as "the fortress village" or "camp, the village which was built in the ancient residential area". Makhta//makta in Turkic languages, uses in the meaning "the written saying on the board". Apparently, the name of the village has been created in connection with the written stones in the area.