Saltaq

Saltaq (also rendered as Saltag and Saltakh) or Salitagh (Armenian: Սալիթաղ, romanized: Salit’aġ) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

It is located 30 km in the north from the district center, on the right bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge.

It had been recorded by the Catholic archdiocese of Nakhchivan that 130 Armenian families in Kyrna and Saltag had converted to Islam in the 1600s and had been Turkified.

[2] Yeycə (Yeyja) - the settlement of the Middle Ages in the north-east from the Saltag village of the Julfa District, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River.

It is limited by the Alinjachay in the west, with the deep valley in the north and south, with the low hills in the east.

[1] Saltag - the place of residence of the Middle Ages in the east from the same named village in the Julfa District, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River.

During the excavation, cast piles of stone, fragments of the cooked brick, and the remains of the preserved wall in 1 m in length, were found.

[1] Saltag Tomb - the monument of the 14th-16th centuries in the necropolis which located in the north-west from the same named village of the Julfa District.