Ləkit

Ləkit
Municipality
Ləkit is located in Azerbaijan
Ləkit
Ləkit
Ləkit is located in Shaki-Zagatala Economic Region
Ləkit
Ləkit
Coordinates: 41°29′03″N 46°50′38″E / 41.48417°N 46.84389°E / 41.48417; 46.84389
Country Azerbaijan
RayonQakh
Population
 • Total
1,510
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

Ləkit (also, Lekit and Lyakit) is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,510.[1]

History and Etymology

In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi (postscript), written in 1300–1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia.[2] Originally the village was called "Lekarti". The postal code is AZ 3424.

Georgian sources claim that the village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians" and that among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village".[3] Letifova E.M considers that actual origin of toponym of villages such as Lekit, Lekit-Ketuklu, Lekit-Malakh in former Ilisu Sultanate are derived from ethnonym of Leg tribe of Caucasian Albania.[4]

Mamirli waterfall

Mamirli waterfall (covered with moss) is located in the village of Lakit-Kotuklu in Qakh District.[citation needed]

Located at the depth of a dense forest, with a height of 15m and width of 30m. The waterfall was registered as Qakh district protected Natural habitat on August 5, 2006.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Qax Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti: İcra Hakimiyyəti: Bələdiyyələr: Qax rayonu inzibati ərazi dairələri üzrə nümayəndəliklər və bələdiyyələr haqqında məlumat Archived 2012-12-27 at archive.today
  2. ^ Janashvili, Mose, "History of Georgia", Second edition by Zakaria Chichinadze, Tbilisi, 1895, p. 205, [1] (in Georgian)
  3. ^ Adamia, Ilia, "Georgian National Architecture", book 3, Saingilo, Tbilisi, 1979, p.p. 124-125; IB335, M-605 (in Georgian)
  4. ^ Letifova, E.M (1999). "Северо-западный Азербайджан: Илисуйское султанство": 25–29. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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