Aza, Azerbaijan

Aza
Municipality
Aza
Coordinates: 38°56′18″N 45°49′42″E / 38.93833°N 45.82833°E / 38.93833; 45.82833Coordinates: 38°56′18″N 45°49′42″E / 38.93833°N 45.82833°E / 38.93833; 45.82833
Country	Azerbaijan
Autonomous republic	Nakhchivan
District	Ordubad
Population  (2005)[citation needed]
• Total	442
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Aza (until 2003,^[1] Yuxarı Aza, Jukhary Aza, Yukary-Aza, and Yukhary Aza «Upper Aza») is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the left side of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 17 km in the south-east from the district center, on the right bank of the Gilanchay River. Its population is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, farming, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 442.^[2]

Etymology[]

The former name of the village, Yuxarı (Upper) Aza means "Aza village which located in the upper side". Since 2003, the name of the village is officially registered as Aza.^[3] At the various sources, this settlement is described as a small town in versions of Aza, Azar, Azat, Azad. In the location of the same city is now located, two villages of Aza and Azadkand.

References[]

External links[]

• Aza (as Yuxarı Aza) at GEOnet Names Server

See also[]

• Azadkend — formerly, Aşağı Aza

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