Ləkit (also, Lekit and Lyakit) is a village and municipality in the
Qakh Rayon of
Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,510.
[Qax Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti: İcra Hakimiyyəti: Bələdiyyələr]
Qax rayonu inzibati ərazi dairələri üzrə nümayəndəliklər və bələdiyyələr haqqında məlumat
History and Etymology
In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian
Gospel's ''Anderdzi'' (postscript), written in 1300–1310, during the reign of king
George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti
Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the
Kakheti
Kakheti ( ka, კახეთი ''K’akheti''; ) is a region (mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The region comprises eigh ...
province of
Kingdom of Georgia. Originally the village was called "Lekarti". The postal code is AZ 3424.
Georgian sources claim that the village's oldest name "Lekarti" (
Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians" and that among the
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
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Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village". Letifova E.M considers that actual origin of toponym of villages such as Lekit, Lekit-Ketuklu, Lekit-Malakh in former Ilisu Sultanate are derived from ethnonym of Leg tribe of Caucasian Albania.
Mamirli waterfall
Mamirli waterfall (covered with ''moss'') is located in the village of
Lakit-
Kotuklu in
Qakh District.
Located at the depth of a dense forest, with a height of 15m and width of 30m. The waterfall was registered as Qakh district protected Natural habitat on August 5, 2006.
References
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Populated places in Qakh District
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