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Yuxarı Ələz

human settlement in Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2021
Entity authorityQ5012644 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yuxarı Ələz (also, Yuxarı-ələz, Yuxarı Alayaz, Yukharu-Alyaz, Yukhary Alayaz, and Yukhary Alyaz) is a village and the least populous municipality in the Siazan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 350. The municipality consists of the villages of Yuxarı Ələz, Yanıq Ələz, Ərziküş, Qaragöz, Köhnə Quşçu, Günəvşa, and Hacışəkər.

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“Yuxarı Ələz” enters the record as human settlement in Azerbaijan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yuxarı, Ələz and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q5012644. Authority coordinates are 40.963, 48.962. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yuxarı Ələz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.