Aşağı Əylis ( also , Ashaghy Aylis , Ashaga Aylis , Ashagy Aylis ) or Agulis ( ) is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan , Azerbaijan . It is located in the near the Ordubad-Yuxarı Aylis highway , 3 km in the east from the district center , on the bank of the Aylis River . Its population is busy with gardening , farming , animal husbandry . There are secondary school , club and a medical center in the village . It has a population of 1007 . The village was an important settlement of the Vaspurakan province of the Kingdom of Armenia or the Vaspurakan Kingdom , and many world-known Armenian merchants instrumental in Silk Road were of Agulis origin , which demonstrates the importance that this place has had in Armenian History . Some historical Armenian Apostolic Churches that were in the area include St. Christopher Church , St. Minas Church , and St. Stepanos Church . However , after the Armenian Genocide , the Armenian presence in Nakhchivan was steadily extinguished and with it the many religious and cultural testaments to the historical Armenian presence in Agulis . Some ideas is put forward by various authors about the name of Əylis . According to the doctor of philological sciences Adil Bagirov : " There are two villages , Ashaghy Aylis and Yukhary Aylis in the Ordubad region . These names were registered Aylis and Sahraoui-Aylis villages in 1590 , in 1727 and in 1728 in the names of the Lower and Upper Aylis " . The associated with the explanation of the toponym , Adil Bagirov quotes from many historical sources that , the name of “ Əylis ” deals forms of Əl-Leys , Ağ Kilis , Ağ Ulus and show that , in all cases it is explained in old Turkish . In the early 8th century , in order to spread Islam , one of the most prominent warlords of the Prophet Muhammed , Malik Ibrahim Əl-Leys has come to Ordubad . He took Ordubad and himself settled here . At the present , the city cemetery of the Ordubad known as the holy cemetery , is called " Malik Ibrahim cemetery " . In the top side of the cemetery was built the sanctuary . Malik Ibrahim 's grave is inside this sanctuary . Thus , the village which was given him as award for his bravery , was named Əl-Leys after him , later as a result of the fall and displacement of the votes , Əl-Leys became Əylis
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Aşağı Əylis