Xəlilli (also, Khalilli and Khalilly) is a village and municipality in the

Babek District Babek District () is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Julfa, Shahbuz, Kangarli, Nakhchivan city, as well as the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia and the East Azerb ...

of Nakhchivan,

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. It is located in the left side of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 16 km in the north from the district center, on the right bank of the Nakhchivanchay River, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, vegetable-growing, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 630.

Etymology

The name of the village is related with the name of the Xəlillilər tribe. The ''Xəlillilər'' (khalilliler) which was part of the

Kayı tribe Kayı can refer to: * Kayı (tribe) The Kayı or Kayi tribe (Middle Turkic: قَيِغْ ''qayïγ'' or simply ''qayig''; tr, Kayı boyu, tk, Gaýy taýpasy) were an Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation. In hi ...

of Turkic origin, was moved from the Western Turkestan in the thirteenth century, some of them lived in the

Shirvan Shirvan (from fa, شروان, translit=Shirvān; az, Şirvan; Tat: ''Şirvan''), also spelled as Sharvān, Shirwan, Shervan, Sherwan and Šervān, is a historical Iranian region in the eastern Caucasus, known by this name in both pre-Islam ...

region.''Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms''. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. .

References

* Populated places in Babek District {{Nakhchivan-geo-stub