Püsyan
Püsyan is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Azerbaijan international railway and highway, 23 km in the south-east from the district center, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, beet-growing, foddering and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, cultural house, library and a hospital in the village. It has a population of 3,751.
According to researchers, the settlement has been called Püsyan, as a result of the settled by the families belonging to the Pusyan tribe of Kurdish origin. Some researchers says that Püsyan or Pesyan is the ancient name which were given to the area where lived the Turkic-speaking pasianlar in the BC in the upper reaches of the river Araz (mainly in Turkey). In the documents of 1833, there are information about pusyanlylar which were one of the nine tribe communities in the territory of Nakhchivan.
According to researchers, the settlement has been called Püsyan, as a result of the settled by the families belonging to the Pusyan tribe of Kurdish origin. Some researchers says that Püsyan or Pesyan is the ancient name which were given to the area where lived the Turkic-speaking pasianlar in the BC in the upper reaches of the river Araz (mainly in Turkey). In the documents of 1833, there are information about pusyanlylar which were one of the nine tribe communities in the territory of Nakhchivan.
Map - Püsyan
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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 |