Keçili (Keçili)
Keçili (also, Kechili and Kechilli) is a village and the most populous municipality, except for the capital Şahbuz, in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 20 km north of the district center, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, library, culture house, club and hospital in the village. It has a population of 1,702. Nearby are registered the place of residence of the medieval, Kollug (5th-8th centuries) and the place of residence of the medieval, Kechili (9th-12th centuries).
The Kecililər are an ancient Turkic tribe. They originate from the Kayı tribe of the Oghuz Turks. They came to Azerbaijan together with Oghuz tribes from Seljuk in the 11th century. In the sources of the nineteenth century (1816), it was noted that the tayfaye-kecililər (the tribe of kechililer) were living in the territory of the Nakhchivan (at the left bank of the Araz River) and intermingled with the kangars during the reign Safavid. The name of the Kechili village is related with Kecililər.
The Kecililər are an ancient Turkic tribe. They originate from the Kayı tribe of the Oghuz Turks. They came to Azerbaijan together with Oghuz tribes from Seljuk in the 11th century. In the sources of the nineteenth century (1816), it was noted that the tayfaye-kecililər (the tribe of kechililer) were living in the territory of the Nakhchivan (at the left bank of the Araz River) and intermingled with the kangars during the reign Safavid. The name of the Kechili village is related with Kecililər.
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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 |