Unus, Azerbaijan

Village and municipality in Ordubad, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Municipality in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

39°00′47″N 45°58′58″E / 39.01306°N 45.98278°E / 39.01306; 45.98278Country

AzerbaijanAutonomous republicNakhchivanDistrictOrdubadPopulation

(2005)^{[citation needed]}

• Total743Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

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]

Etymology

According 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]

References

^ 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.