Nəhəcir
Sign in to saveNahajir (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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cached 1625h agoPlace 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 sectionsContents
- 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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