Xoşkeşin
Sign in to saveXoşkeşin (also, Xoşkeşiş, Khoshkeshin and Koshkesin) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 34 km to the north of the district center, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its economy centers on vineyards, farming and animal husbandry. The village has a secondary school, a club, two libraries, a communication branch, and a medical center, and has a population of 383. The Ilandağ cuneiform inscriptions have been recorded in the vicinity of the village.
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Place details
- Locality
- Xoşkeşin
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Xoşkeşin
- 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
- 383
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Julfa District
- Population
- 411
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Historical and archaeological sites
- Ilandagh cuneiform inscription
- Qıtqın (Gytgyn)
- Khoshkeshin
- Khoshkeshin Necropolis
- See also
- References
- External links
Xoşkeşin (also, Xoşkeşiş, Khoshkeshin and Koshkesin) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 34 km to the north of the district center, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its economy centers on vineyards, farming and animal husbandry. The village has a secondary school, a club, two libraries, a communication branch, and a medical center, and has a population of 383. The Ilandağ cuneiform inscriptions have been recorded in the vicinity of the village.
==Etymology== The name of the village comes from the words koş (temporary housing for shepherds, homeland, stopping place, migration) and kezen (span, mountain crest) phonetic form of the word kesin/keşin in the Turkic languages and means "stopping place of shepherds on the crest of the mountain".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xoşkeşin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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