Aşağı Əylis

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Aşağı Əylis
Ագուլիս
Agulis
Municipality
Aşağı Əylis is located in Azerbaijan
Aşağı Əylis
Aşağı Əylis
Coordinates: 38°55′11″N 45°59′11″E / 38.91972°N 45.98639°E / 38.91972; 45.98639Coordinates: 38°55′11″N 45°59′11″E / 38.91972°N 45.98639°E / 38.91972; 45.98639
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
DistrictOrdubad
Population
(2005)
 • Total1,007
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Aşağı Əylis (also rendered as Ashaghy Aylis, Ashaga Aylis, Ashagy Aylis) or Agulis (Armenian: Ագուլիս) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near the Ordubad-Yuxarı Aylis highway, 3 km in the east from the district center, on the bank of the Aylis River. Its population is busy with gardening, farming, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1007.[1]

The village was an important settlement of the Vaspurakan province of the Kingdom of Armenia or the Vaspurakan Kingdom, and many Armenian merchants trading along the Silk Road were said to have Agulis as hometown.[citation needed] Some historical Armenian Apostolic Churches that were in the area include St. Christopher Church, St. Minas Church, and St. Stepanos Church. However, the Armenian presence in Nakhchivan was steadily extinguished in the 20th century, and with it the religious and cultural testaments to the historical Armenian presence in Agulis.[citation needed]

Mosque of the 18th century in the village

Etymology[]

The settlement was first mentioned in historical sources in the 11th century under the Armenian name Agulik (Armenian: Ագուլիք).[2]

Several ideas have been put forward[by whom?] about the later Azerbaijani name of Əylis. The city cemetery of the Ordubad known as the holy cemetery, is called "Malik Ibrahim cemetery". Malik Ibrahim's grave is inside this sanctuary, who had died in 1419. Thus, the village which was given him as award for his bravery, was named Əl-Leys, where Əl-Leys means brave or fearless in Arabic.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. volume I. Baku: ANAS. pp. 36–37. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9. |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ (in Armenian) Barkhudaryan, Sedrak. «Ագուլիս» [Agulis]. Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1974, vol. 1, p. 61.
  3. ^ Arxeoloq, fəlsəfə doktoru Bəhlul İbrahimli: “Əylis kəndi əslində onun adını daşıyır...”

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