№ 2,
2007
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About some landscape toponyms connected with relief and natural conditions (by the example of south-east slope of the Greater Caucasus within Azerbaijan)
Institute of Geography named after acad. H.Aliyev of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, AZ1143, Baku, H.Javid av., 115
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The article deals with the study of formation of some toponyms distributed in south-eastern slope of the Major Caucasus such as “Akhtarma”, “Ayaz akhtarma”, “Chil gez”, “Chil dagh”, “Kep dagh”, “Magharaly dagh”, “Kakhaly dagh”, “Boz dagh”, “Gara takhta”, “Ala takhta”, “Agh argun”, “Kechal dagh”, slope of “Ala kol”, meaning the component elements of relief, forming its rock and peculiarities of landscape; “Boransyz – Julga”, “Yelgedik” (Yelli gedik) – names connected with peculiarities of landscapes and atmospheric precipitations of these territories; “bana”, “gyrma”, “tap” – geographical terms reflecting the peculiarities of relief and landscape; “ban”, “tapan”, “ovrug”, “germe”, “syrma”, etc. terms are the local terms used by people in the process of economic activity