Ayrınc (also Ayrynj, Ayrindzh until 2003) or Arinj ()
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Shahbuz District Shahbuz District ( az, Şahbuz rayonu) is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Julfa, Babek, and the Syunik and Vayots Dzor provinces of Armenia. Its capital and larg ...

of Nakhchivan,

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. It is located near the Shahbuz-Kyukyu highway, 3 km in the north from the district center, on the bank of the Kukuchay river (tributary of the Nakhchivanchay river). Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are a secondary school, a library, a club, a kindergarten and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 546. The ''Nohur'' settlement of the

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is located nearby.

Etymology and History

In the

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, ''Arynj'' means "hard, reverse, rigid, boring". Azerbaijani sources state that the name was created due to the harsh climate of the available area. Since 2003, the name of the village has officially been registered as Ayrınc for an unknown reason. In the beginning of the 18th century, the ''Arynja'' village was registered in the district of Girkhbulag. The Armenian name for the city, Arinj (Առինջ), is an alternative form of the Old Armenian word arij (առիճ), meaning ''village''. According to Azerbaijani sources, the local population were deported from the Arnyj village of the

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region of

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in 1948–50.''Encyclopedic Dictionary of Azerbaijan Toponyms''. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. . According to Armenian sources, the

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population of the village was expelled by

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during inter-ethnic conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s moved to several surrounding settlements of

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, eventually founding the suburb of the same name in Armenia's

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just outside of the capital. Ա․ Ա․ Այվազյան, ՆԱԽԻՋԵՎԱՆ․ պատկերազարդ բնաշխարհիկ հանրագիտակ, Երևան, «Հուշարձան», 1995, էջ 167-168 — 368 էջ. — 2700 հատ, ISBN 5-8079-0911-9

Archaeological monuments

Nohur

''Nohur'' is the place of residence of the 11-14 centuries, near the Ayrınc village of the Shahbuz rayon, on the left bank of the Ayrınc River. Its area is 1000 m². The remains of the building are observed in the settlement. The houses built of hewn limestones are the square and rectangular. During the research work in one of the rooms (6х4 m) ceramic products have been found both unglazed (fragments of jug and jar-type containers in the pink and yellowish colored) and glazed (bowl, plate fractures).

Ayrınc Necropolis

The ''Ayrınc Necropolis'' is another archaeological monument of the

in the Ayrınc village of the Shahbuz rayon. Only a part of the figure of a ram and a part of the head stones of the graves are remained in the

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cemetery. The upper part of the two head stones has been engraved in a similar to the crown. One of these two figures of the simple form rams is spiral-horned. Researchers assume that the monument belongs to the 15-16 centuries.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayrinc Populated places in Shahbuz District