Aliabad is a settlement and municipality in
Nakhchivan City
Nakhchivan ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a true exclave of Azerbaijan, located west of Baku. The municipality of Nakhchivan consists of the city of Nakhchivan, the settlement of Əliab ...
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Nakhchivan AR,
Azerbaijan
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. It is located in the near of the Nakhchivan-Sharur highway, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, music school, library, club, kindergarten and a medical center in the settlement. In the center of the settlement was built the memorial complex of "''Martyrs''". It has a population of 9,495.
Etymology
In Soviet times, it was called in the name of Armenian bolshevik
Alexander Miasnikian
Alexander Fyodori Miasnikian or Myasnikov (28 January February1886 – 22 March 1925), also known by his revolutionary ''nom de guerre'' Martuni, was an Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary, military leader and politician. During the Russian Civi ...
. Since 1991, it is officially registered as Aliabad. The name of the settlement means "the settlement which belongs to Ali".
[''Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms''. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. ]
Monuments
There was an Armenian church (
St. Astvatsatsin Church) located in the central part of the settlement.
The church was destroyed at some point between 1997 and 2005.
See also
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St. Astvatsatsin Church (Aliabad)
References
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Populated places in Azerbaijan
Nakhchivan (city)
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