Ləkit


Ləkit is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,510.

History and Etymology

In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi, written in 1300–1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia. Originally the village was called "Lekarti". The postal code is AZ 3424.
The village's oldest name "Lekarti" is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians". Among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village". Current Azerbaijani name Ləkit is derived from this form.