Ağdərə, Ordubad

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Ağdərə
Municipality
Ağdərə is located in Azerbaijan
Ağdərə
Ağdərə
Coordinates: 39°06′37″N 45°54′50″E / 39.11028°N 45.91389°E / 39.11028; 45.91389Coordinates: 39°06′37″N 45°54′50″E / 39.11028°N 45.91389°E / 39.11028; 45.91389
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
DistrictOrdubad
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Ağdərə (also, Aghdara and Agdere) is a settlement in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is included to the administrative-territorial scope of the Paraghachay settlement. It is located in the right side of the Ordubad-Bist highway, 48 km in the north-east from the district center, on the left bank of the Gilanchay river. At the present, nobody lives in the settlement.[1][2]

History[]

The settlement was founded in 1950, due to establishing the plant of ore refining in the territory of named Ağdərə. The surrounding slopes are from the white colored rocks. Therefore settlement got its name from the valley with the same-titled.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Ordubad rayonu: İnzibati ərazi dairələri və ərazi vahidləri
  2. ^ ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. volume I. Baku: ANAS. p. 17. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ ”Azərbaycan toponimlərinin ensiklopedik lüğəti”. İki cilddə. I cild. Bakı, “Şərq-Qərb”, 2007.

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