Novxanı

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Novkhany Novxanı
Municipality
Novkhany
Coordinates: 40°31′47″N 49°46′46″E / 40.52972°N 49.77944°E / 40.52972; 49.77944
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Absheron
Population [citation needed]
• Total	4,468
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Novxanı (also, Novkhany, Novkhana, Novxana, and Nobkhana) is a village and municipality in the Absheron District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 4,468. The name means new house in Persian language.

Notable natives

• Azim Azimzade — painter and graphic artist, founder of Azerbaijani satirical graphics, People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1927).
• Lotfi A. Zadeh — American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic.
• Mahammad Amin Rasulzade — statesman, scholar, public figure and one of the founders of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the chairman of the Azerbaijani National Council (1918).
• Mehdi Huseynzade — legendary guerrilla fighter in Yugoslavia and Italy during World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Suleyman Rustam — poet, the People's Poet of Azerbaijan SSR (1960).
• Suriyya Aliyev — highly respected elder, local mosque keeper and widowed grandfather of 7 (2016).

Transportation

Baku suburban railway

Gallery

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  Keçəldağ-(Novkhanı)
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References

• Novxanı at GEOnet Names Server

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Novxanı.

• AF Hotel Novkhani (The largest hotel and resort in Caucasus) Archived 2009-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Map of Novkhani

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