Qaraçuq
Sign in to saveQaraçuq (also, Garachug, Garachyg, Garachukh, and Karachukh) is a village and municipality in the Nakhchivan city of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 3 km in the south from the city center, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, horticulture, vegetable-growing, fruit-growing and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, cultural house and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 2,701.
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Place details
- Locality
- دهستان گجلرات شرقی
- Region
- استان آذربایجان غربی
- Country
- ایران
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.name
- Qaraçuq
- 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 Autonomous Republic
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 2701
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Qaraçuq
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Nakhchivan
- Population
- 2904
- Elevation
- 795
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Historical and archaeological monuments
- Garachug Necropolis I
- Garachug Necropolis II
- References
Qaraçuq (also, Garachug, Garachyg, Garachukh, and Karachukh) is a village and municipality in the Nakhchivan city of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 3 km in the south from the city center, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, horticulture, vegetable-growing, fruit-growing and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, cultural house and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 2,701.
==Etymology== The name of the Qaraçuq (Garachug) village mentions in the epic of "The Book of Dede Korkut" (7th century). The protagonist of the epic, Qazan Khan is called the "tiger of the Garachug". The Garachukha expression is used by the population of mountain and foothill regions of Azerbaijan. Garachukha is the prototype of the Garachug shepherd whose name is mentioned in "The Book of Dede Korkut".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qaraçuq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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