Xələc, Nakhchivan

Xələc (also, Khaladzh, Khaladj and Khalaj) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

It is located near the Khalaj Mount, eight kilometres (5.0 mi) north-west of the district center, on the bank of the Aras River.

[2] Xələclər (Khalajlar) - is the Turkic tribe that lived on the south bank of the Amu Darya River in the early Middle Ages.

It is located 200 m south of the village of same name in the Sharur region, on the left bank of the Aras River, on the slope of the Khalaj mountain.

Along the sides of the irrigation canal which built from slopes of the mountain were found the samples of the ceramic of the first Bronze Age (Kura–Araxes culture).