Country Azerbaijan Time zone AZT (UTC+4) Rayon Ordubad District | Autonomous republic Nakhchivan Local time Monday 4:22 AM | |
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Kələki (also, Kalaki, Kalakik and Kyalaki) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located on the Ordubad-Unus highway, 45 km in the north-east from the district center. People of the village is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 463.
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History
Kələki is a village of the Ordubad district in the administrative unit of the Unus village, on the bank of the Vənəndçay river, on the foothill of the Uçurdağ mountain. The village got its name from the nearby ruins of the temple. The name made out the words in Arabic-language "kala" (temple) and in Persian-language, the word "ki" (mountain) of the phonetic version of "kuh" and means "temple mountain".
Population
According to the information from detailed book of the Nakhchivan sanjag (pp. 183–184), there were 28 males non-muslim population in the Kələki village of the subject area of Azadciran of the Nakhchivan sanjag.
Notable people
Abulfaz Elchibey - (24.06.1938 - 22.08.2000) Ex-president of Azerbaijan Republic.