Unus, Azerbaijan

Unus is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 33 km in the north-west from the district center, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with gardening, farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 743.[1]

Unus
Municipality
Unus
Coordinates: 39°00′47″N 45°58′58″E
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
RayonOrdubad
Population
 (2005)
  Total743
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Etymology

According to researchers, unus is a distorted form of the word of əniz//eniz (groove in the ground, arable land, arable, pasture, empty field) in the Turkic languages.[2]

References

  1. ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. volume II. Baku: ANAS. p. 337. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
  2. Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms. In two volumes. Volume II. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. ISBN 978-9952-34-155-3.


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