Ağdərə, Ordubad

Ağdərə (also, Aghdara and Agdere) is a settlement in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is included to the administrative-territorial scope of the Paraghachay settlement. It is located in the right side of the Ordubad-Bist highway, 48 km in the north-east from the district center, on the left bank of the Gilanchay river. At the present, nobody lives in the settlement.[1][2]

Ağdərə
Municipality
Ağdərə
Coordinates: 39°06′37″N 45°54′50″E
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
RayonOrdubad
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

History

The settlement was founded in 1950, due to establishing the plant of ore refining in the territory of named Ağdərə. The surrounding slopes are from the white colored rocks. Therefore settlement got its name from the valley with the same-titled.[3]

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References

  1. Ordubad rayonu: İnzibati ərazi dairələri və ərazi vahidləri
  2. ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. volume I. Baku: ANAS. p. 17. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
  3. ”Azərbaycan toponimlərinin ensiklopedik lüğəti”. İki cilddə. I cild. Bakı, “Şərq-Qərb”, 2007.


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