Aşağı Yayci
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Aşağı Yaycı (also, Aşağı Yəyci, Ashagy Yaydzhi, and Ashaghy Yaydzhy) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 16 km in the north-east from the district center, on the left bank of the Arpachay River, on the slope of the Daralayaz range. Its population is busy with farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, cultural house and hospital in the village. It has a population of 1,462. The settlement of Qız qalası (Maiden's Tower) of the Bronze and early Iron Ages is located in the south-west of the village, on the slope of the mountain range.[1]
Etymology
It was registered in Yəyci version, too. The name of the village of Aşağı Yaycı (Lower Yaydzhy) is related with the ancient Turkic tribe of yayci which is origin of Turkic Oghuz tribes. Yet from ancient times, this tribe lived mainly, in the territory of Nakhchivan and present Armenia.[2]
References
- Aşağı Yəyci (as Aşağı Yayci) at GEOnet Names Server
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- Alışar
- Arbatan
- Arpaçay
- Aşağı Aralıq
- Aşağı Daşarx
- Aşağı Yayci
- Axaməd
- Axura
- Babəki
- Cəlilkənd
- Çəmənli
- Çərçiboğan
- Çomaxtur
- Danyeri
- Dəmirçi
- Dərəkənd
- Dərvişlər
- Diyadin
- Dizə
- Düdəngə
- Əlikli
- Ərəbyengicə
- Gümüşlü
- Günnüt
- Havuş
- Həmzəli
- İbadulla
- Kərimbəyli
- Kosacan
- Kürçülü
- Kürkənd
- Mahmudkənd
- Maxta
- Məmmədsabir
- Muğancıq Mehrab
- Muğancıq Müslüm
- Muğanlı
- Oğlanqala
- Oğuzkənd
- Püsyan
- Qaraburc
- Qarahəsənli
- Qarxun
- Qışlaqabbas
- Qorçulu
- Şahbulaq
- Şəhriyar
- Sərxanlı
- Siyaqut
- Stansiya Daşarx
- Tənənəm
- Təzəkənd
- Təzəkənd
- Tumaslı
- Vayxır
- Vərməziyar
- Xanlıqlar
- Xələc
- Xətai
- Yengicə
- Yeni Havuş
- Yuxarı Aralıq
- Yuxarı Daşarx
- Yuxarı Yayci
- Zeyvə
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