Ərəfsə
Sign in to saveƏrəfsə (also, Arafsa and Aravsa) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 55 km in the north from the district center, on the right bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with vine-growing, grain-growing and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, a cultural house, two libraries, a communication center, and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 940.
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- Locality
- Ərəfsə
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 927
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ərəfsə
- 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
- Julfa
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 940
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Historical and archaeological monuments
- Daş Körpü (Stone Bridge)
- Xarabalıq (Kharabalyg)
- Arafsa
- Arafsa Pir
- References
- External links
Ərəfsə (also, Arafsa and Aravsa) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 55 km in the north from the district center, on the right bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with vine-growing, grain-growing and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, a cultural house, two libraries, a communication center, and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 940.
There exist the Daş Körpü and the Xarabalıq settlements of the Middle Ages in the north-east from the Arafsa village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ərəfsə” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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