Ujar Rayon
Ujar Rayon (Ucar Rayonu[1]) is a rayon (admeenistrative destrict) o Azerbaijan, situatit tae the sooth o Goychay, in the centre o the kintra. This region contains the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline tae the sooth o the Shirvan plain. Thare are 32 veelages an 1 ceety in Ucar. The lairgest commonties are Qazyan, Müsüslü an Qarabörk.
In 2009, Ujar Rayon haed an estimatit population o 77,900 fowk, o which 22% wur urban dwallers an 78% rural.[2] The population is 99.7% Azeri.
History eedit
The name Ucar derives frae the Turkic wird "Ucqar" meanin "remote", as Ucar wis remote frae the Shirvanshah caipital at Baku, an on the frontier o the Shirvan state.[3]
The Ujar Rayon wis creatit on 24 Januar 1939 as an independent admeenistrative unit frae pairt o Goychay Rayon.[4]
Admeenistration eedit
Chief executives eedit
- Gyulyushov, Nariman oglu Ibish - frae 1994(?) tae 29 Mairch 2005
- Gafurov, Arzu Telman oglu - frae 29 Mairch 2005 tae 5 Aprile 2010[5]
- Mamedov, Yashar oglu Qahraman - syne 5 April 2010[6]
Municipalities eedit
Ujar Rayon is dividit intae twinty-nine municipalities.
Notes eedit
- ↑ "Ucar Rayonu (Approved)" Ujar Rayon at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ↑ "Demographic indicators" Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- ↑ Eminov, Zakir Namin oğlu (2005) Azärbaycanın ähalisi: iqtisadi, sosial vä demoqrafik problemlär Baku, page 157, OCLC 254902980, in Azeri
- ↑ "Ujar Rayon" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Supreme Court of Azerbaijan, in Russian, last accessed 12 November 2010
- ↑ "Ильхам Алиев подписал распоряжение о снятии Арзу Тельман оглу Гафурова с должности главы Исполнительной власти Уджарского района ("Ilham Aliyev signed a decree withdrawing Arzu Telman oglu Gafurova from the office of the chief executive of the Ujar region"" (in Roushien). "The First News". 5 Apryle 2010.
- ↑ "Ильхам Алиев подписал распоряжение о назначении Яшара Гахраман оглу Мамедова главой Исполнительной власти Уджарского района ("Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the appointment of Yashar oglu Mammadov Qahraman chief executive of the Ujar region")" (in Roushien). "The First News". 5 Apryle 2010., archived at