Birinci Biləcik

Municipality in Shaki, Azerbaijan

Birinci Biləcik

Municipality

Birinci Biləcik

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Birinci Biləcik

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Coordinates: 41°19′35″N 46°56′56″E﻿ / ﻿41.32639°N 46.94889°E﻿ / 41.32639; 46.94889
Country|  Azerbaijan
Rayon| Shaki
Elevation

| 326 m (1,070 ft)
Population

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• Total

| 1,399
Time zone| UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+5 (AZT)
Area code| AZ5534

Birinci Biləcik (also, Biledzhik Pervoye, Biledzhik Pervyy, Birindzhi-Baledzhik, and Birindzhi-Bilyadzhik) is a village and municipality in the Shaki Rayon of Azerbaijan. It lies in the Alazan-Ayrichay basin and has a population of 1,399.

## Name

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During the collectivisation era of the USSR, the village of Bilejik received its prefix Birinci which means 'first', i.e. original. This helps contrast the village (i.e. historical Biləcik) with much newer İkinci Biləcik, founded nearby in the Soviet times.

## History

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Local historians cite the foundation of Bilejik (Biləcik) village to around 1570, originally by families who had come here from what is now the Bilecik Province district of Turkey. In 1734, Bilejik was the centre of a major revolt against Nadir Shah but after minor gains, the rebellion caused Bilejik to become the focus for Nadir Shah's ire with a counter attack force sent from Barda to take revenge on the rebels. In fear of terrible reprisals, some 300 families left Bilejik and retreated to the autonomous communities of Jar-Balakan according to Mullah Mohammad Jari's Chronicle of the Tsar's War.[1] This is historically plausible as the Djaris from Djaro-Belokani had already fought Nadir Shah's army in 1738 (near Dzhinikh/Lekit), killing Nadir's brother Ibraham-Khan during that earlier conflict.

In 1852, according to Tolstoy in his posthumous novella,[2] it was in a copse close to Bilejik (Bilardzhik) where Hadji Murad and his murids made their last stand, their horses having become bogged down in a waterlogged ricefield while trying to flee from the Cossacks of Nukha.

## References

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1. ^ Molla Məhəmməd Cari Car müharibəsi salnaməsi
2. ^ Hadji Murat chapter 25

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Shaki District

Capital: Shaki

History|

* Utik
* Kingdom of Hereti
* Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti
* House of Black Monk
* Safavid rule
* Shaki Khanate
* Russian rule

Culture|

* Church of Kish
* Palace of Shaki Khans
* Mugham Festival
* Sheki Halva

Places|

* Abbas
* Ağyazı
* Aran
* Aşağı Daşağıl
* Aşağı Göynük
* Aşağı Kəldək
* Aşağı Küngüt
* Aşağı Layısqı
* Aşağı Şabalıd
* Aşağı Zəyzid
* Aydınbulaq
* Babaratma
* Bala Söyüdlü
* Baltalı
* Baqqal
* Baş Göynük
* Baş Kəldək
* Baş Küngüt
* Baş Layısqı
* Baş Şabalıd
* Baş Zəyzid
* Bideyiz
* Birinci Biləcik
* Bolludərə
* Böyük Dəhnə
* Çapağan
* Çaykənd
* Çayqaraqoyunlu
* Cəfərabad
* Çələbixan
* Çeşməli
* Cəyirli
* Çolaxlı
* Cuma
* Cunut
* Daşbulaq
* Daşüz
* Dərəcənnət
* Əliyar
* Fazıl
* Göybulaq
* İbrahimkənd
* İkinci Biləcik
* İncə
* Kəhrizoba
* Kiçik Dəhnə
* Kiş
* Köbər Zəyzid
* Köndələn
* Kosalı
* Küdürlü
* Oraban
* Orta Zəyzid
* Oxud
* Öyrət
* Qaradağlı
* Qaratorpaq
* Qayabaşı
* Qırxbulaq
* Qızılarx
* Qoxmuq
* Qozlubulaq
* Qudula
* Qumux
* Salynchakh
* Sarıca
* Şəki
* Şin
* Şirinbulaq
* Şıxoba
* Şorsu
* Suçma
* Təpəcənnət
* Turan
* Vərəzət
* Zunud

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