Yukhary-Kasil ( azerb. Yuxarı Qəsil ) is a village in the Yukhary-Kasil administrative-territorial district of the Agdash region of Azerbaijan .
| Village | |
| Yukhara-Kasil | |
|---|---|
| azerb. Yuxarı Qəsil | |
| A country |  Azerbaijan |
| Municipality | Yukhara-Kasilsky |
| Area | Agdash |
| History and Geography | |
| Timezone | |
| Population | |
| Population | 966 people ( 2009 ) |
| Nationalities | Azerbaijanis |
| Denominations | Shiites |
| Official language | Azerbaijani |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | AZ0333 |
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Etymology
The name comes from the words “yukhara” (from Azeri - “upper”) and “Kasil” (oikonym). The name means “Verniy Kasil”, as the village is located above the villages of Ashagi Kasil (Lower Kasil) and Orta Kasil (Middle Kasil).
The former name of the village is Casil. The name, according to one version, comes from the Turkic word “Ghasil”, meaning “hollow, pit” [1] , and according to another, from “cough”, meaning pasture [2] .
History
The village of Kasil in 1913 according to the administrative-territorial division of the Elizabethpol province belonged to the Uchkovakhsky rural community of Areshsky district [3] .
In 1926, according to the administrative-territorial division of the Azerbaijan SSR, the village belonged to the dacra Lyaki of the Geokchay district.
After the reform of the administrative division and the abolition of counties in 1929, the Kasil village council was formed in the Agdash region of the Azerbaijan SSR .
According to the administrative division of 1961 and 1977, the village of Yukhary-Kasil was part of the Kasil village council of the Agdash region of the Azerbaijan SSR [4] [5] .
In 1999, administrative reform was carried out in Azerbaijan and the Yukhary-Kasil municipality of the Agdash region was established within the Kasil administrative-territorial district [6] .
Geography
Yukhary-Kasil is located on the right bank of the Turianchay river.
The village is located 4 km from the Agdash district center and 235 km from Baku . The nearest railway station is Lyaki.
The village is located at an altitude of 54 meters above sea level.
Population
| Population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886 [7] | 1981 [8] | 1985 [9] | 1999 [10] | 2009 [11] |
| 515 | ↗ 704 | ↘ 520 | ↗ 867 | ↗ 966 |
In 1886, 515 people lived in the village, all of them were Azerbaijanis, by religion - Sunni Muslims.
The population is mainly engaged in vegetable growing, grain growing, coconut farming and animal husbandry.
Climate
| Climate of Yukhara-Kasil | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Jan | Feb | March | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average maximum, ° C | 7.0 | 8.2 | 12.6 | 20.5 | 25,4 | 29.9 | 33,4 | 32,3 | 28 | 21.1 | 14.2 | 9.1 | 20.1 |
| Average temperature, ° C | 3.0 | 4.2 | 8.1 | 14.7 | 19.5 | 23.9 | 27.1 | 26.1 | 22.2 | sixteen | ten | 5.1 | 15.0 |
| Average minimum ° C | −0.9 | 0.2 | 3.6 | 8.9 | 13.7 | 18 | 20.9 | 19.9 | 16,4 | 10.9 | 5.9 | 1,2 | 9.9 |
| Precipitation rate, mm | 25 | thirty | 35 | 42 | 57 | 42 | 22 | 26 | 27 | 55 | 33 | 27 | 421 |
| Source: http://en.climate-data.org | |||||||||||||
The average annual temperature in the village is +15 ° C. The village has a semi-arid climate.
Infrastructure
In Soviet times, the village housed a secondary school, a library, a kindergarten, a medical center [9] .
The village has a post office [12] , a library, a medical center, and a cemetery.
Notes
- ↑ Encyclopedic Dictionary of Toponymy of Azerbaijan: in 2 volumes / ed. R. Aliyeva. - Baku: Shark-Garb, 2007.- T. 2. - S. 284.
- ↑ Encyclopedic Dictionary of Toponymy of Azerbaijan: in 2 volumes / ed. R. Aliyeva. - Baku: Shark-Garb, 2007. - T. 1. - S. 76-77.
- ↑ Volostnaya, stanichnaya, rural, municipality governing and administration, as well as police stations throughout Russia with the designation of their location . - Kyiv: Publishing House of the L.A. Fish, 1913.
- ↑ Administrative division of the Azerbaijan SSR as of January 1, 1961. - Baku: Azerneshr, 1961.
- ↑ Administrative division of the Azerbaijan SSR as of January 1, 1977 . - Baku: Azerneshr, 1979.- 215 p.
- ↑ “On the territories of municipalities”: Republic of Azerbaijan - Baku, 1999.
- ↑ type. I. Martirosyanets. A set of statistical data on the population of the Transcaucasian region, extracted from the family lists of 1886. - Tiflis, 1893.
- ↑ Јukhara Gәsil // Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia : in 10 volumes = Azәrbaјҹan Council of the Encyclopedia (Azeri) / Ҹ. Guliјevin editors и ilә. - B .: ASE-now bash editors. - T. 5. - S. 187.
- ↑ 1 2 Map sheet K-38-132 Geokchay . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1984. 1985 edition
- ↑ National Census of Azerbaijan. 1999, Baku.
- ↑ National Census of Azerbaijan. 2009, Baku.
- ↑ Ağdaş Poçt Filialının Yuxarı Qəsil kənd poçt şöbəsi .