Üstüpü
Sign in to saveÜstüpü (until 2003, Ustupu) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 36 km in the north-west from the district center. Its population is busy with gardening, beekeeping, farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, kindergarten, club and library in the village. It has a population of 1,342.
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cached 1650h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Üstüpü
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Üstüpü
- 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
- Ordubad
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 1342
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Ordubad District
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Ustupu village.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Ustupu Bridge
- References
- External links
Üstüpü (until 2003, Ustupu) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 36 km in the north-west from the district center. Its population is busy with gardening, beekeeping, farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, kindergarten, club and library in the village. It has a population of 1,342.
==Etymology== The local people pronounce the name of the village as Üstüpü. As a place of residence it is known since Safavid era (16th century). According to local residents, the village was named Üstüpir because in the upper (üst) side of the village was the sanctuary (pir), and later the name a bit distorted. At the western group of dialects of the Azerbaijani language ustupulu / ustuflu / ustublu used in meaning "neat, inhabited, prosperous". It can be assumed that the name of the ancient village is connected with the same meaning.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Üstüpü” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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