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Quzlu ()پژوهشي در جغرافياي مغان، سيد محمد ابراهيمي، انتشارات نيك آموز، اردبيل 1385 p316 is a village in
Ani Rural District Ani Rural District () is in the Central District of Germi County, Ardabil province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Ani-ye Olya. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 6,25 ...
of the Central District in
Germi County Germi County () is in the northern part of Ardabil province, Ardabil province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Germi, from Ardabil, the capital of the province. Etymology The etymology of "Germi" is somewhat cryptic. The earliest boo ...
,
Ardabil Ardabil (, ) is a city in northwestern Iran. It is in the Central District (Ardabil County), Central District of Ardabil County, Ardabil province, Ardabil province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. The ...
province,
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
. Quzlu lies on the
Mughan plain Mughan plain (, مغان دوزو; ) is a plain stretching from northwestern Iran to the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The highest density of irrigation canals is in the section of the Mughan plain which lies in the Republic of Aze ...
; the people are
Shia Muslim Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political Succession to Muhammad, successor (caliph) and as the spiritual le ...
and speak in
Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani ( ; , , ) or Azeri ( ), also referred to as Azerbaijani Turkic or Azerbaijani Turkish (, , ), is a Turkic languages, Turkic language from the Oghuz languages, Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijanis, Azerbaij ...
.پژوهشي در جغرافياي مغان، سيد محمد ابراهيمي، انتشارات نيك آموز، اردبيل 1385


Etymology

The name Quzlu (Oghuzlu/Ghozlu/Qozlu) originates with the
Oghuz Turks The Oghuz Turks ( Middle Turkic: , ) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. In the 8th century, they formed a tribal confederation conventionally named the Oghuz Yabgu State in Central Asia ...
.فرهنگ واژه گان ترکی در زبان و ادبیات فارسی، عادل ارشادی فر، باغ اندیشه An alternative theory about the etymology of this name is that, because the place has many walnut trees and walnut in the Azeri and Persian languages is ''qoz'' or ''joz'', the name means "the place with many walnut trees."


Demographics


Population

Qozlu in 1987, 1992, and 1997 had 403, 375, and 295 inhabitants, respectively. At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 222 in 47 households. The following census in 2011 counted 163 people in 41 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 120 people in 39 households.


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Populated places in Germi County {{Germi-geo-stub