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Aşağı Buzqov (also, Ashaghy Buzqov, Ashaga-Buzgov, Ashagy-Bizgov, and Ashagy-Byzgov) 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 Azer ...
of Nakhchivan,
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
. It is located 40 km in the north from the district center, on the bank of the Buzgovchay River. Iys population is busy with gardening, beekeeping and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 990. The postal code is AZ 6711.


Etymology

The components of ''“buz”'' in the area names of Shahbuz, Buzqov in the territory of Nakhchivan comes from ''“bus”'' tribes, one of the tribes of the
Medes The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian peoples, Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media (region), Media between western Iran, western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the m ...
. ''"Buz"'', ''"bus"'' as well as ''"bos"'' is "boz oğ" (gray arrow) which is considered a main branch of
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 ...
. Yet in the first centuries of the millennium and early Middle Ages, the name of
Turkic tribes The Turkic languages, Turkic term ''oğuz'' or ''oğur'' (in z-Turkic, z- and r-Turkic, respectively) is a historical term for "military division, clan, or tribe" among the Turkic peoples. With the Mongol invasions of 1206–21, the Turkic Khan ...
which settled in Nakhchivan as Turkesh,
Pechenegs The Pechenegs () or Patzinaks, , Middle Turkic languages, Middle Turkic: , , , , , , ka, პაჭანიკი, , , ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Pečenezi, separator=/, Печенези, also known as Pecheneg Turks were a semi-nomadic Turkic peopl ...
, Kangars, Az, ''Ahura'', ''Shada'', ''Yaychi'', ''Karabakhlar'', ''Garachug'', ''Gyzylja'' and other tribes are reflected in geographical names of Nakhchivan which a part of them are encountered in epos of the "
Book of Dede Korkut The ''Book of Dede Korkut'' or ''Book of Korkut Ata'' (, ; ; ) is the most famous among the dastans or epic stories of the Oghuz Turks. The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turkic peoples and ...
". “Kitabi-Dədə Qorqud” tariximizin aynasıdır. İsmayıl Hacıyev, AMEA Naxçıvan Bölməsinin sədri, akademik
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References

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