Quzlu ( fa, قوزلو, also

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d as Qūzlū; also known as Tūzlū) is a village in

Ani Rural District Ani Rural District ( fa, دهستان اني) is in the Central District of Germi County, Ardabil province, Iran. At the census of 2006, its population was 6,251 in 1,220 households; there were 5,421 inhabitants in 1,351 households at the fol ...

, in the Central District of

Germi County Germi County ( fa, شهرستان گرمی) is in the northern part of Ardabil province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Germi, located from Ardabil, the capital of the province. At the 2006 census, the county's population ...

, Ardabil Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 222, in 47 families. Quzlu lies on the

Mughan plain Mughan plain ( az, Muğan düzü, 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 people are

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

and speak in

Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani () or Azeri (), also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who live mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan where the North Azerbaija ...

.پژوهشي در جغرافياي مغان، سيد محمد ابراهيمي، انتشارات نيك آموز، اردبيل 1385

Etymology

The name Quzlu (Oghuzlu/Ghozlu/Qozlu) comes from

Oghuz Turks The Oghuz or Ghuzz Turks (Middle Turkic languages, Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, ''Oγuz'', ota, اوغوز, Oġuz) were a western Turkic people that spoke the Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages, Turkic language family. In th ...

. An alternative theory about the etymology of this name is because the place has many walnut trees and walnut in Azeri and Persian language is called ''Qoz'' and ''Joz'', then the name of the place means the place with many walnut trees.

Population

Qozlu in 1987, 1992 and 1997 respectively had 403, 375 and 295 inhabitants. In 2007, it had 222 inhabitants.ايرانين آمار مركزي

References

Towns and villages in Germi County {{Germi-geo-stub