Yurdçu
human settlement in Azerbaijan
Yurdçu (also, Yurdchu and Yurtchi) is a village and municipality in the Kangarli District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 25 km in the south-east from the district center, on the slope of the Daralayaz ridge. Its population is busy with farming and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 1,085. There are the settlements of the first Iron Age and Middle Ages, the treasure of coins of the different periods, the burial mounds of the ancient period, the necropolis of the Bronze and Early Iron Age in the nearby of the village.
Etymology
Yurdchu village is located at the foot of the Daralayaz ridge. The name of the Yurdchu is related with the name of the yurdchu tribe, one of the arms of the Turkic Kengerli tribe. In the past, the several villages in the Nakhchivan were founded by the tribe of Yurdchu.
Yurdchu
Yurdchu - the settlement of the first Iron Age from the south-west of the Yurdchu village, in the Kangarli region.
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