Anaqut

Anaqut
Municipality
Anaqut is located in Azerbaijan
Anaqut
Anaqut
Coordinates: 38°58′53″N 45°57′51″E / 38.98139°N 45.96417°E / 38.98139; 45.96417
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
DistrictOrdubad
Population
 (2005)[citation needed]
 • Total
428
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Anaqut (also, Anagyut, until 2003,[1] Danaqırt, and Danagyrt) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Unus highway, 26 km away from the district center. The Venend river flows through center of the village. Its population mainly is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. There are club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 428.[2]

Monuments

There was an Armenian church in the village - St. Astvatsatsin Church. It was still standing in the 1980s and had been destroyed by February 2000.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası şəhər və rayonlarının inzibati ərazi bölgüsündə qismən dəyişikliklər edilməsi haqqında" Azərbaycan Respublikasının 1 mart 2003-cü il tarixli, 423-IIQ nömrəli Qanunu Archived 2014-03-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Azerbaijani)
  2. ^ ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. I. Baku: ANAS. p. 25. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
  3. ^ 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. 100–103. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022.


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