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Ləkit (also, Lekit and Lyakit) is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,510.[1]

Ləkit
Municipality
Ləkit
Coordinates: 41°29′03″N 46°50′38″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Qakh
Population
• Total	1,510
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

History and Etymology

In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi (postscript), written in 1300–1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia.[2] Originally the village was called "Lekarti". The postal code is AZ 3424.

Georgian sources claim that the village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians" and that among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village".[3] Letifova E.M considers that actual origin of toponym of villages such as Lekit, Lekit-Ketuklu, Lekit-Malakh in former Ilisu Sultanate are derived from ethnonym of Leg tribe of Caucasian Albania.[4]

Mamirli waterfall

Mamirli waterfall (covered with moss) is located in the village of Lakit-Kotuklu in Qakh District.^{[citation needed]}

Located at the depth of a dense forest, with a height of 15m and width of 30m. The waterfall was registered as Qakh district protected Natural habitat on August 5, 2006.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Ləkit at GEOnet Names Server

На других языках

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- [en] Ləkit

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[ru] Лекит

Лекит (азерб. Ləkit [Лякит], цахур. Лекит), — село на севере Азербайджана, в Гахском районе.

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