Alinja
Alinja is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Alinja has an elevation of 1,220 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alinja Tower and Khanegah tomb.
Alinja Tower
Photo: Azerbaijaniboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Alinja Tower, also known as Alinjagala, Alinja-gala or the Armenian fortress of Yernjak up to the 14th century, is a tower located to the west of Khanega village, not far from Julfa city in Azerbaijan, on the right coast of the Alinja River, higher of the Armenian monastery St.
Khanegah tomb
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Khanegah on the Alinja River – is a tomb dated to between the 13th and 15th centuries and is located in the Khanegah village of Julfa District, Azerbaijan. The tomb is on the Alinja River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Əbrəqunus.
Əbrəqunus
Village
Photo: Azerbaijaniboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Əbrəqunus is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,747. Əbrəqunus is situated 7 km southwest of Alinja.
Alinja
- Type: Locality
- Description: municipality in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Julfa District, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“Alinja” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ալինջա”
- Armenian: “Երնջակ գյուղ”
- Armenian: “Երնջակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Əlincə” (historical)
- Belarusian: “Алінджа”
- Chechen: “Аьлинджаь”
- Dutch: “Alinja”
- Georgian: “ელინჯა”
- Irish: “Alinja”
- Italian: “Əlincə”
- Malay: “Alinja”
- Persian: “الینجه”
- Polish: “Əlincə”
- Portuguese: “Alinja (aldeia)”
- Portuguese: “Alinja”
- Russian: “Алинджа”
- Tatar: “Әлинҗә”
- Turkish: “Elince, Culfa”
- Turkish: “Elince” (historical)
- Turkish: “Əlincə”
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