Local time Friday 11:14 PM | Time zone AZT (UTC+4) Population 394 (2005) | |
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Weather 2°C, Wind N at 3 km/h, 53% Humidity Rayons Ordubad District, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic | ||
Kotam (until 2003, Ketam) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the north of the Nakhchivan-Baku railway, 5 km in the south-east from the district center. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 394.
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Map of Kotam, Azerbaijan
Etymology
The name of the village is related with the name of the mountain of Ketam. Some researchers consider that the name is a distorted option of the toponym of Kuhitam and explains it as a combination of the words of kuh (mountain) in Iranian languages and tam//dam (home, building, fence) in Turkic languages, in meaning as "the mountain which is there home, building". In the Turkic languages, the words of kat / ket /kot / köt / kut / küt are used in meaning "low height", "short", "fat", "heap, pile", "device", "wealth", and suffix -am is the word-building. In this regard, the name of the mountain can be explained as "the low height mountain", "hill".