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    Città storiche dell’Azerbaigian e origini dei loro nomi

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    1. menaghare on

      Qakh comes from Georgian Kakhi. Kakhs were Georgian people. Even today, the neighbouring region to the city is called kakheti and Telavi is its capital.

    2. TheAkolo on

      Shamakhi actually comes from the words Sham(the city, one of the capitals of the Arabic Caliphet) and akhi, the arabic word for brother.

    3. Fockewulf44 on

      And Baki( not Baku) comes from arabic, Al-Baki is one of the name of Allah – eternal. That name was given after Azerbaijan became a part of arabic Caliphate. And by the way that land was also called as Azerbaijan and mentioned in different books about Caliphate. One of them is “Second righteous caliph.”

    4. theworldvideos on

      The name Urdu which is a language originates from the Turkish name Ordu as well.

    5. Alive-Pomegranate484 on

      Balakən (Balasakan) and Zaqatala (Sakatala) also came from sak and scythian tribes settled there. Balaken means “Balayurd”, Zaqatala means “Sak düzü”.

    6. oxtQ on

      Historian here. This showed up on my feed. Just a heads up, Şuşa and şüşə are not exactly the same word in Azerbaijani. Şuşa is pronounced roughly *shu-sha* while şüşə is pronounced more like *shü-sha*.

      The word şüşə itself is not originally Turkic. It comes from Persian شیشه / shīshe, meaning glass/bottle.

      Hence several of your slides are missing the Iranian/Persian layer.

      Ordubad = a Turco-Persian compound: ordu = army/camp + Persian ābād / abad, meaning an inhabited/prosperous settlement.

      Lankaran / Lənkəran = Persian Langarkunān / Langarkanān, meaning a place for dropping or weighing anchor, so basically a sea port name. Another theory links it to a Talysh word meaning “cane house”.

      Barda / Bərdə = The older forms include Armenian Partav, Georgian Bardavi, and Middle Persian Pērōzāpāt. Some scholarly explanations derive the name from Iranian roots, either related to rampart/fortification or to Parthian/Arsacian identity.

      Nakhchivan / Naxçıvan = older form is Naxčawan which is an Armenian place name element awan, ultimately of Iranian origin, meaning “place/town.”

      You can fact check all of my corrections online.

    7. Rellj on

      Edit: I forgot to add that Oghuz was called Vartashen (from Armenian)

    9. yoruk_in_a_topak_ev on

      Not many people in Turkey know this, but Turkey’s Iğdır Province (and Kağızman borough of Kars Province) used to belong to the Irevan Khanate of historical Azerbaijan before Tsarist Russia annexed it in 1828. The province was originally called Surmalu and its capital city was called İgdir in Azerbaijani. Today, around 50% of Iğdır’s population is Shi’i Turks whose mother tongue is Azerbaijani. The rest of the population is Sunni Kurds. The 12th city in your list (Oğuz) reminded me of the fact that İgdir city was named after the Oghuzic tribe İgdir, some clans of which settled there. There are also villages named Iğdır/İgdir in Anatolia and South Azerbaijan (Iran) as well.

      https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/İğdir_boyu

      Central Asian Turkmens under the Noğay Horde rule also had a tribe named İgdir in the 15th century. Apparently, the original İgdir tribe (one of the 24 Oghuz tribes) got divided, and some groups of it migrated westward whereas some remained in Central Asia.

      https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-of-medieval-europe-in-1444/

    10. losviktsgodis on

      Nakhchivan is misleading.

      The original name of Nakhchivan comes from ancient sources and has evolved over time.

      In ancient Armenian, it was called Nakhijevan (Նախիջևան).
      The name is often linked to the Armenian phrase meaning “place of descent” or “first landing place.”

      Even though it is linked to Noah, the name is Armenian as that’s literally what it describes is in Armenian.

      Always have to wash away our history/heritage.

    13. EarthTraditional3329 on

      Shusha is named after the adjacent Armenian village of Shosh some other sourves say it is derived from the Persian name for glass Shīsha. Nakhchivan (Nakhijevan) comes from two Armenian words, Nakh, meaning firstly/first and Ijav/Ichav mwaning landed/descended refering to Noah and his ark.

    15. Typical_Army6488 on

      I actually read on wikipedia about that, basically Persian speakers of the Caucasus, it said that Baku was a Tat city by the time of the Russian conquests and gradually assimilated to it’s neighbouring language, since there’s not alot of English sources that I have access to about Azerbaijan im wondering if anyone here can help me research it’s validity

    16. Reasonable-Oil6514 on

      Wtf is “Azerbaijani Turkish word” 💀 It’s called Azerbaijani full stop.

    17. Zealousideal_Cry_460 on

      Eh, some inaccuracies.

      “şüşe/şişe” is persian.

      The Turkic word for glass is “Sırıçka/Sırça”

      And the suffix of “Orduabad” is “Abad”. Which just means “city”.

      Also “Nakhchivan” is likely from persian as its components are persian

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