Şahbuzkənd (also, Shahbuzkand, Kənd Şahbuz and Kend Shahbuz) is a village and municipality in the
Shahbuz District
Shahbuz District () is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Julfa, Babek, and the Syunik and Vayots Dzor provinces of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is Shahbu ...
of
Nakhchivan,
Azerbaijan
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. It is located in the near of the Shahbuz-Kechili highway, 7 km in the south-east from the district center, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club, kindergarten and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,197.
Etymology
The toponym of the ''Shahbuzkand'' is related with the fortress which existed in the early
Middle Ages
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and remained the ruins, and the name of the fortress is connected with the name of the mountain ''Şahbuztəpə''. Nearby there is ''Köhnə qala'' (the old castle) the place of residence of the medieval period.
The name of the ''Şahbuztəpə'', made out from the components of the ''Şah'' (high, large), ''buz'' // ''bus'' (in the Turkic languages, "the ledge, the mountain"), ''təpə'' "hill" and means "the high mountain", "the hill with the large ledge".
[''Encyclopedic Dictionary of Azerbaijan Toponyms''. In two volumes. Volume II. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. .]
Historical and archaeological monuments
Köhnəgala
''Köhnəgala'' - the settlement of the
Middle Ages
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, near the Shahbuzkand village in the Shahbuz rayon. It was registered in 1990. Its area is more than 10 hectares. It is surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs. During archaeological researches were found the fragments of pottery. The remains of a stone wall on the south-eastern part of ''Köhnəqala'' is observed from a distance of 150 m. Surface materials consists, from the iron things (most likely a knife blade), the products of unglazed (pot, kettle-type containers etc.) and glazed (bowl, plate-type containers, lamp etc.) ceramic, fragments of glass. The settlement belongs to the 14th-18th centuries.
Shahbuzkand Necropolis
''Shahbuzkand Necropolis'' - the archaeological monument of the
Middle Ages
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in the territory of the Sahbuzkənd village. The head and chest stones of the
Muslim
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cemetery are destroyed. According to the gravestone ram figures in the cemetery, it is supposed that the monument belongs to the 15th-16th centuries.
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Populated places in Shahbuz District
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