Darkənd

Darkənd (also, Dər, Dar, and Der) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the south of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 15 km in the south-west from the district center, on the right bank of the Gilanchay River. Its population is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, animal husbandry. There are secondary school and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 500. The ruins of the historical and architectural monuments is in the territory of the village. The tomb, the mosque's minaret, etc. is attracting attention.

==Historical and archaeological monuments== ===Darkənd=== Darkənd - the settlement of the Middle Ages in near the Azadkənd village of the Ordubad region. Was registered in 1968. The settlement, covering a wide area has been severely damaged. The burned building which has been found in here, specially remains of brick shows that in the time there were buildings. Surface materials consist from fragments of pink colored of simple and glazed pots. The cultural layer consist from the fragments of pottery, layers of clay mixed of bricks. Most of the findings consist from the samples of the glazed and unglazed pots (pot, bowl, tray, cover, etc.). There were the grave stone ram statues of the Middle Ages in cemetery of its territory. The monument belongs to the 16th–18th centuries.