Vurğun
Sign in to saveVurğun (also, Grünfeld, Kalininkänd, and Kalininkend) is a village and municipality in the Agstafa Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,710. Founded as the German colony of Grünfeld, the town was renamed during the Soviet period for Mikhail Kalinin, and afterward in 1991, in honor of the writer Samad Vurgun.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in AZ, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Vurğun is referenced by 44 other articles, and connects out to Aghstafa District, Azerbaijan and time zone.
It is catalogued under topics including Assyrian settlements and Populated places in Aghstafa District.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Vurğun
- Region
- Ağstafa
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 2,635
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Vurğun
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Rayon
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Agstafa
- Settlement.population_total
- 2710
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +5
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Vurğun
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Aghstafa District
- Elevation
- 356
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Vurğun (also, Grünfeld, Kalininkänd, and Kalininkend) is a village and municipality in the Agstafa Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,710. Founded as the German colony of Grünfeld, the town was renamed during the Soviet period for Mikhail Kalinin, and afterward in 1991, in honor of the writer Samad Vurgun.
The village is also home to a portion of Azerbaijan's Assyrian community, who settled in the 1930's after the events of the Assyrian genocide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vurğun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations