Ordubad District
district of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan
Ordubad District (Azerbaijani: Ordubad rayonu) is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the district of Julfa, as well as the Syunik Province of Armenia, and the East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Its capital and largest city is Ordubad. As at 2020, the district had a population of 50,200.
Etymology
Ordubad is a name of Turco-Persian origin and means, "city of army" (from Turkic ordu (army) and Persian bad (city)), which implies that the city was founded during the period of the Mongol, or the ensuing Il-Khanid rule.
History
Ordubad region was a part of the khanates of Erivan and Nakhchivan, which were dependencies of Qajar Iran, with Ordubad forming the main town of the district of Aza-Jeran in the eastern part of the khanate of Nakhchivan. After the Russo-Persian War and the Turkmanchay Treaty of 1828, the region was ceded by Iran to Imperial Russia, becoming part of the newly formed Armenian Oblast. It subsequently became part of the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate, and then the Nakhchivan Uyezd of the Erivan Governorate. Since 1921 Ordubad was a part of the Soviet Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1990 became the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic within the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Ordubad district was established in 1930.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ordubad District” as district of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q512623. VIAF identifies the subject as 233932174. Authority coordinates are 38.900, 46.033. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1828, 1921 and 1990.
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