Saltaq
Sign in to saveSaltaq (also rendered as Saltag and Saltakh) or Salitagh () is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 30 km in the north from the district center, on the right bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with vine-growing, farming and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, a cultural house, two libraries, a club, a kindergarten, a communication center, and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,566. The monument of Yeyja of the Middle Ages was discovered in the north
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- Locality
- Saltaq
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous republic
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nakhchivan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Julfa
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 1566
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.name
- Saltag
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Saltaq
- Elevation
- 1143
- Image
- Saltaq Culfa rayonu.jpg
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Historical and archaeological monuments
- Yeyja
- Saltag
- Saltag Necropolis I
- Saltag Necropolis II
- Saltag Tomb
- References
- External links
Saltaq (also rendered as Saltag and Saltakh) or Salitagh () is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 30 km in the north from the district center, on the right bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with vine-growing, farming and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, a cultural house, two libraries, a club, a kindergarten, a communication center, and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,566. The monument of Yeyja of the Middle Ages was discovered in the northeast of the village.
Armenian sources mention the name of the village for the first time in 1383 or 1384. It had been recorded by the Catholic archdiocese of Nakhchivan that 130 Armenian families in Kyrna and Saltag had converted to Islam in the 1600s and had been Turkified.
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