Əliabad, Nakhchivan

Aliabad
Aliabad
Municipality
	Azerbaijani: Əliabad
	Aliabad
	Coordinates: 39°13′36″N 45°23′54″E / 39.22667°N 45.39833°E
Country	Azerbaijan
Autonomous republic	Nakhchivan AR
City	Nakhchivan City
Population (2008)
• Total	9,495
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Aliabad is a settlement and municipality in Nakhchivan City, Nakhchivan AR, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Nakhchivan-Sharur highway, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, music school, library, club, kindergarten and a medical center in the settlement. In the center of the settlement was built the memorial complex of "Martyrs". It has a population of 9,495.^[2]

Etymology

In Soviet times, it was called in the name of Armenian bolshevik Alexander Miasnikian^{[clarification needed]}. Since 1991, it is officially registered as Aliabad. The name of the settlement means "the settlement which belongs to Ali".^[3]

Monuments

There was an Armenian church (St. Astvatsatsin Church) located in the central part of the settlement.^[4] The church was destroyed at some point between 1997 and 2005.^[4]

References

^ World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan^{[dead link]} – World-Gazetteer.com
^ ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. I. Baku: ANAS. p. 160. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
^ Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. ISBN 978-9952-34-155-3
^ ^a ^b Khatchadourian, Lori; Smith, Adam T.; Ghulyan, Husik; Lindsay, Ian (2022). Silent Erasure: A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies: Ithaca, NY. pp. 330–333. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022.