Unus is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District 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 | |
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Municipality | |
  Unus | |
| Coordinates: 39°00′47″N 45°58′58″E / 39.01306°N 45.98278°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
| District | Ordubad |
| Population (2005)[citation needed] | |
• Total | 743 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Etymology
editAccording 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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. II. Baku: ANAS. p. 337. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
- ^ 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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