Ləkit

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

Ləkit
Municipality
Ləkit
Coordinates: 41°29′03″N 46°50′38″E
Country Azerbaijan
RayonQakh
Population
 • Total1,510
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

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]


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, (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 requires |journal= (help)


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