Qaraqala
Qaraqala (also, Garagala and Kara-kala) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 15 km in the north from the district center, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, gardining, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 568.
Qaraqala - is the settlement of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the vicinity of a village with the same name, in the Babek region, on the left bank of the Nakhchivanchay River. It was recorded in 1954. The area is 3 ha. From the settlement were collected many fragments of the gray and red clay pots, obsidian and fragments of the flint. According to the findings, can say that the houses were built of bricks on the stone foundations. The cultural layer consists from the layers of soil mixed with ash and various archaeological materials. Here, were discovered fragments of clay pots, mortar and pestle, graters etc. The materials are stored in the Nakhchivan State History Museum. According to the findings, the monument belongs to the 2-1 millennium of BC.
Qaraqala - is the settlement of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the vicinity of a village with the same name, in the Babek region, on the left bank of the Nakhchivanchay River. It was recorded in 1954. The area is 3 ha. From the settlement were collected many fragments of the gray and red clay pots, obsidian and fragments of the flint. According to the findings, can say that the houses were built of bricks on the stone foundations. The cultural layer consists from the layers of soil mixed with ash and various archaeological materials. Here, were discovered fragments of clay pots, mortar and pestle, graters etc. The materials are stored in the Nakhchivan State History Museum. According to the findings, the monument belongs to the 2-1 millennium of BC.
Map - Qaraqala
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZN | Azerbaijani manat | ₼ | 2 |
| ISO | Language |
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| HY | Armenian language |
| AZ | Azerbaijani language |
| RU | Russian language |