Payız
Sign in to savePayız (also, Paiz and Payyz) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The village is located at the foothills, on both banks of the Jahri River. Its population is busy with grain-growing, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,074. Nearby have been found the same named monument of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age and the Çalxanqala (Chalkhangala) settlement of the Bronze Age.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in AZ, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Payız is referenced by 43 other articles, and connects out to Azerbaijan, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Babek District.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Payız
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Payız
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Payiz kendi babek rayonu naxcivan svln4821 01.jpg
- 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
- 1074
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Babek District
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Payiz kendi babek rayonu naxcivan svln4821 01.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Historical and archaeological monuments
- Chalkhangala
- Payız
- References
Payız (also, Paiz and Payyz) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The village is located at the foothills, on both banks of the Jahri River. Its population is busy with grain-growing, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,074. Nearby have been found the same named monument of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age and the Çalxanqala (Chalkhangala) settlement of the Bronze Age.
==Etymology== According to the local people, the real name of the village was Payız ( Autumn) and it was named like that because of its location in the area which suitable for autumn planting. Because of that the area of the village is suitable for autumn planting, here are grown winter grain plants and cotton. In fact, the name of the village was from the word of the payiz which belongs to the Iranian languages and means "end, the last point, slope, foot, bottom,". The village is actually located at the foot of the mountain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Payız” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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