Parağaçay
Parağaçay (also, Paragachay) is an urban-type settlement and the least populous municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the Ordubad-Tivi highway, 52 km in the north-east from the district center, on the right bank of the Gilanchay River, at the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing and animal husbandry. It has a population of 102.
The settlement which was built in connection with production of molybdenum in 1939, got its name from the river which flows near the village. And the name of the Paragachay River is related with the name of the Parağa (Paragha) village and means river which flows through the Paragha village. According to some researchers, the name of the Parağa village made from the components of the Turkic word of para (village) and Persian word of gah (location) meaning the place of the village or the place on the other bank. In the dialect of the Nakhchivan of the Azerbaijani language, the word parağa means foothill of the mountain, slope of the mountain, and this is related with the geographical location of the settlement.
The settlement which was built in connection with production of molybdenum in 1939, got its name from the river which flows near the village. And the name of the Paragachay River is related with the name of the Parağa (Paragha) village and means river which flows through the Paragha village. According to some researchers, the name of the Parağa village made from the components of the Turkic word of para (village) and Persian word of gah (location) meaning the place of the village or the place on the other bank. In the dialect of the Nakhchivan of the Azerbaijani language, the word parağa means foothill of the mountain, slope of the mountain, and this is related with the geographical location of the settlement.
Map - Parağaçay
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Country - Azerbaijan
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The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The region and seven surrounding districts are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan pending a solution to the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh through negotiations facilitated by the OSCE, although became de facto independent with the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994. Following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, the seven districts and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh were returned to Azerbaijani control.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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AZN | Azerbaijani manat | ₼ | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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HY | Armenian language |
AZ | Azerbaijani language |
RU | Russian language |