Şahbuzkənd
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Şahbuzkənd (also, Shahbuzkand, Kənd Şahbuz and Kend Shahbuz) is a village and municipality in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Shahbuz-Kechili highway, 7 km in the south-east from the district center, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club, kindergarten and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,197.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kiçikoba
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Şahbuzkənd
- 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
- Shahbuz
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 1197
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Şahbuzkənd
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Shahbuz1.jpg
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- postal code
- AZ7113
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Historical and archaeological monuments
- Köhnəgala
- Shahbuzkand Necropolis
- References
Şahbuzkənd (also, Shahbuzkand, Kənd Şahbuz and Kend Shahbuz) is a village and municipality in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Shahbuz-Kechili highway, 7 km in the south-east from the district center, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club, kindergarten and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,197.
==Etymology== The toponym of the Shahbuzkand is related with the fortress which existed in the early Middle Ages and remained the ruins, and the name of the fortress is connected with the name of the mountain Şahbuztəpə. Nearby there is Köhnə qala (the old castle) the place of residence of the medieval period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Şahbuzkənd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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