| Zəyəm | |
|---|---|
| Municipality | |
  Zəyəm | |
| Coordinates: 41°24′42″N46°40′55″E / 41.41167°N 46.68194°E Coordinates: 41°24′42″N46°40′55″E / 41.41167°N 46.68194°E | |
| Country |  |
| Rayon | Qakh |
| Population [ citation needed ] | |
| • Total | 1,553 |
| Time zone | AZT (UTC+4) |
| • Summer (DST) | AZT (UTC+5) |
Zəyəm (also, Zagam, Zagyam, and Zeyam; Avar : Закам) is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,553. It was named in memory of the historic bazaar town of Zagem, destroyed in the early 17th century, but there is no proof that this was Zagem's original site, which was on the bank of the Alazani River.
Avar or, also known as Avaric, is a language that belongs to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian family primarily spoken in Dagestan.
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west and Iran to the south. The exclave of Nakhchivan is bounded by Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and has an 11 km long border with Turkey in the northwest.
Zagem or Bazari was a town in the southeast Caucasus, in the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kakheti. It flourished from the 15th to the 17th century as a vibrant commercial and artisanal centre. It became a dependency of the Safavid Persian province of Ganja-Karabakh in the 1550s. The fortunes of the town were reversed by Safavid military actions in the area in 1615. By the 1720s, the town had been reduced to an insignificant hamlet. The settlement was located in what is now the Zaqatala District of Azerbaijan, but no evidence of the town remains at the site. The toponym Zagem is found exclusively in non-Georgian sources; Georgians knew it as Bazari, meaning "bazaar".
