Xalxal, Nakhchivan


Xalxal is a village and municipality in the Babek Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 19 km in the north from the district center, on the left bank of the Nakhchivanchay River, on the foothill area. Its population is busy with gardening, grain-growing, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library, club, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 568.

Etymology

In the ancient sources, the name of the Xalxal city, the winter residence of ruler of the Albania is mentioned about the events of the fifth century. In the Iran are exist the Khalkhal city, the neighborhood of Khalkhal and the Khalkhal Kuchek settlement. In the nineteenth century, in the Erivan Province have been registered the two mountains called Xalxallı, and the mountain Xalxal in the Georgia. According to researchers, the toponym is related with the word of Xalxal which use in dialects of the Azerbaijan as the meaning of the "a place which surrounded with the fence to keep the cattle in the open air".