Ləkit

Ləkit
Municipality
Ləkit
Coordinates: 41°29′03″N 46°50′38″E / 41.48417°N 46.84389°E / 41.48417; 46.84389Coordinates: 41°29′03″N 46°50′38″E / 41.48417°N 46.84389°E / 41.48417; 46.84389
Country  Azerbaijan
Rayon Qakh
Population
 • Total 1,510
Time zone UTC+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.

The village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians". Among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village".[3] Current Azerbaijani name Ləkit is derived from this form.

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.is
  2. ↑ Janashvili, Mose, "History of Georgia", Second edition by Zakaria Chichinadze, Tbilisi, 1895, p. 205, (in Georgian)
  3. ↑ Adamia, Ilia, "Georgian National Architecture", book 3, Saingilo, Tbilisi, 1979, p.p. 124-125; IB335, M-605 (in Georgian)


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