Başkənd, Nakhchivan

Başkənd is a village and municipality in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Unus highway, 22 km in the north-west from the district center. Its population is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, farming, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 415.

Etymology

The name of the Başkənd village made out from the components of Turkic words of baş and kənd means "the center, the main settlement, above, the village at the height". In the Armenia, till 1946 the name of the villages of Vernashen and Gegharkunik, till 1978 the name of the village of Artsvashen were Başkənd.

Monuments

There was an Armenian church in the village, St. Gevorg Church, which was destroyed by February 2000.