Vanand, Ordubad
village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
Vənənd is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Unus highway, 17 km in the north-west from the district center, on the bank of the Vanandchay river. People of the village is busy with gardening, grain growing, cotton-growing, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, music school, library, culture house, a medical center and kindergarten in the village. It has a population of 2,347.
The municipality consists of the villages of Vənənd and Xanağa.
History
Vanand is one of the ancient settlements of Azerbaijan. It is associated with the name of Vanandlar (people of Vanand). In the ancient cemetery were found the monuments of stone ram on the graves. In sources, in the Middle Ages it was a village in the Giran area of the Nakhchivan tumen.
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