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Nahajir (also, Nahadzir, Nahajir and Nəhəcir) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 22 km in the north from the district center, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, two library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 514. Until 6 January 2015, it belonged to the neighbouring Julfa District.

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Place details

Locality
Nəhəcir
Region
Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
Country
Azərbaycan
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Nəhəcir
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
514
Settlement.timezone
AZT
Settlement.utc_offset
+4

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Official name
Nəhəcir
Country
Azerbaijan
Located in
Julfa District
Elevation
1268
Time zone
UTC+04:00
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postal code
AZ7212
native label
Nəhəcir
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Historical and archaeological monuments
  • Nahajir Fortress
  • Nahajir I
  • Nahajir Necropolis I
  • Nahajir II
  • Nahajir Necropolis II
  • References

Nahajir (also, Nahadzir, Nahajir and Nəhəcir) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 22 km in the north from the district center, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, two library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 514. Until 6 January 2015, it belonged to the neighbouring Julfa District.

==Etymology== The name is the distorted form of the name of the Persian word نخجیر Nakhjir which means "hunting area". According to those researchers that meaning is related with the figures of the natural rams in the territory of the village.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nəhəcir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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