Təzəkənd, Kangarli

Təzəkənd
Təzəkənd
Municipality
	Təzəkənd
	Coordinates: 39°23′36″N 45°17′57″E / 39.39333°N 45.29917°E
Country	Azerbaijan
Autonomous republic	Nakhchivan
District	Kangarli
Population (2005)[citation needed]
• Total	516
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Təzəkənd (anglicized as Tazakend) is a village and municipality in the Kangarli District of Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. It is located on the left side of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 38 km in the north-west from the district center, on the slope of the Daralayaz ridge.

Its population is busy with grain-growing and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, club^{[dubious – discuss]} and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 516. There are settlements and a necropolis of the end of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1–2 millencia BC) near the village.^[1]

History

have been forced to move from massacre committed by Armenians in 1918 and settled in the current village area As the village had been newly settled, it was named Təzəkənd (the new village).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. volume II. Baku: ANAS. p. 329. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

External links

Təzəkənd, Kangarli at GEOnet Names Server

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[ANAS-1] ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. volume II. Baku: ANAS. p. 329. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

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