Kotam
Kotam (until 2003, Ketam) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District 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.
Kotam کتام is a Gilaki/Persian word meaning a hut-like shelter raised on the farmland to protect the farmers from the sun and rain, sort of northern Iranian Cabana. This word is used in many places in northern Iran and adjacent area.
According to some guesses, the name of the village could also be 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 their 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".
Kotam کتام is a Gilaki/Persian word meaning a hut-like shelter raised on the farmland to protect the farmers from the sun and rain, sort of northern Iranian Cabana. This word is used in many places in northern Iran and adjacent area.
According to some guesses, the name of the village could also be 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 their 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".
Map - Kotam
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Country - Azerbaijan
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The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The region and seven surrounding districts are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan pending a solution to the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh through negotiations facilitated by the OSCE, although became de facto independent with the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994. Following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, the seven districts and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh were returned to Azerbaijani control.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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AZN | Azerbaijani manat | ₼ | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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HY | Armenian language |
AZ | Azerbaijani language |
RU | Russian language |