Aşağı Küngüt

Aşağı Küngüt
Aşağı Küngüt
Municipality
	Aşağı Küngüt Aşağı Küngüt
	Coordinates: 41°03′51″N 47°15′02″E / 41.06417°N 47.25056°E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Shaki
Population [citation needed]
• Total	1,298
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Aşağı Küngüt (also, Ashaga-Kyungyut and Ashagy-Kyungyut) is a village and municipality in the Shaki district of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,298.

The etymology of the name Küngüt in the name of the village comes from the name of the country Kang (Kangar), with a Sogdian plural suffix -t, expressed in the ancient Chinese annals as Guniue.^[1]

References

^ Yu. Zuev, "Early Türks: Essays on history and ideology", p. 148, with reference to M.Kashgari "Divan-i Lughat-it-Turk", Vol. 1, p. 159; Vol. 3, p. 149, Tashkent, 1964

External links

Aşağı Küngüt at GEOnet Names Server
Zuev Yu.A., "Early Türks: Essays on history and ideology", Almaty, Daik-Press, 2002, ISBN 9985-4-4152-9 (In Russian)

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[1] Yu. Zuev, "Early Türks: Essays on history and ideology", p. 148, with reference to M.Kashgari "Divan-i Lughat-it-Turk", Vol. 1, p. 159; Vol. 3, p. 149, Tashkent, 1964

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Aşağı Küngüt
Municipality
Aşağı Küngüt Show map of Azerbaijan Aşağı Küngüt
Coordinates: 41°03′51″N 47°15′02″E / 41.06417°N 47.25056°E / 41.06417; 47.25056
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Shaki
Population ^{[citation needed]}
• Total	1,298
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)