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Kələki (also, Kalaki, Kalakik and Kyalaki) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located on the Ordubad-Unus highway, 45 km in the north-east from the district center. People of the village is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 463.[1]
Kələki | |
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Municipality | |
  Kələki | |
| Coordinates: 39°00′12″N 45°58′55″E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
| District | Ordubad |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 463 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
History
Kələki is a village of the Ordubad district in the administrative unit of the Unus village,[2] on the bank of the Vənəndçay river, on the foothill of the Uçurdağ mountain. The village got its name from the nearby ruins of the temple. The name made out the words in Arabic-language "kala" (temple) and in Persian-language, the word "ki" (mountain) of the phonetic version of "kuh" and means "temple mountain".[3]
The village had an Armenian church (St. Stepanos Church), which continued to exist until the early 2000s and it was destroyed at some point between 2000 and 2009.[4]
Population
According to the information from detailed book of the Nakhchivan sanjag (pp. 183–184), there were 28 males[5] non-Muslim population in the Kələki village of the subject area of Azadciran of the Nakhchivan sanjag.[6]
Notable natives
- Abulfaz Elchibey[7] - (24.06.1938 - 22.08.2000) Ex-president of Azerbaijan Republic.
See also
St. Stepanos Church (Kələki)
References
- ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. I. Baku: ANAS. p. 285. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
- AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASININ Q A N U N U
- ”Azərbaycan toponimlərinin ensiklopedik lüğəti”. İki cilddə. I cild. Bakı, “Şərq-Qərb”, 2007.
- Khatchadourian, Lori; Smith, Adam T.; Ghulyan, Husik; Lindsay, Ian (2022). Silent Erasure: A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. pp. 96–99. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022.
- Note: Female gender are not taken into account.
- Naxçıvan sancağının müfəssəl dəftəri 9 məhərrəm 1140 (27 avqust 1727) Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine. Bakı şəhəri, "Elm" nəşriyyatı, 2001-ci il. İçindəkilər: Dərəşahbuz nahiyəsi, səh 118
- Abulfaz Elchibey President of Azerbaijan
External links
- Kələki at GEOnet Names Server
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На других языках
- [en] Kələki
[ru] Келеки
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