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e the city of Nakhchivan is now locat ed. He decided here with his family a nd laid the foundation of the future city. The name of the city, which mea ns the first place of settlement, als o came from here. Prophet Noah and hi s family lived in Nakhchivan for a lo ng time. According to legend, the hum an generation spread here. Himself of prophet Noah, his sister and other m embers of the family died in Nakhchiv an and were buried here ”.Prophet Noa h is the savior of mankind. Because a ll living things were destroyed durin g the flood, except for those in Noah
's ark. Revelation to prophet Noah ca me from GOD. He also built a large ar k to save mankind from human extincti on, and prevented the future tragedy by taking 76 people, food seeds and a part of the animal world.Not all of Noah's family members were in the ark . They who landed in Nuhchikhan with the prophet Noah and lived here K.A.N ikitin notes that the prophet Noah an d his sister were buried in Nakhchiva n. The son of the Prophet Noah, the T urk, was also born in this land, died here and was buried in the holy land . He states that the tomb of Noah's w
ife, Nohamzar (Nuhamgar), was in the city of Marand. V.Sysoyev gives brief information about the structure and dimensions of the sepulcher.Abulfazl Husseini wrote in his article "Statue of Self of Our People" that accordin g to modern science, the legendary No ah's flood is already a reality. It t ook place in this area 7,500 years ag o, in the 6th millennium BC. On the s ame date, strong volcanic eruptions t ook place in Algarag and Agridag, the Euphrates and Tigris rivers flowing in the southern part of the region ov erflowed, as well as heavy rains. As
a result, a major flood occurred in t hese areas ”.M.M Phillipis, a profess or at Norwest University in the Unite d States, in his article "The Land of God Nakhchivan" he writes that "Noah 's ark stopped in Nakhchivan, life af ter the flood began here, and this is a holy place considered the land of God" ["Sharg gapisi", May 28, 2008].T here are scientific works of Azerbaij ani researchers based on scientific f acts about the Noah's flood, its cove rage of Nakhchivan territory, the mon ument to Gamigaya, the Prophet Noah a nd his followers landed in Nakhchivan
, lived here, and many of his graves were in Nakhchivan. In the meantime e specially attracts attention research es of I.Habibbeyli, R.Sultanov, G.Gad irzade, F.Safarli, I.Hajiyev, V.Aliye v, A.Bagirov, V.Bakhshaliyev, Y.Safar ov, A.Farzali, T.Agazade and others.D ue to the connection of the Prophet N oah with Nakhchivan, nowhere on the w orld maps are the name of Noah as muc h as in Azerbaijan, especially in Nak hchivan. Images of Gamigaya in Orduba d region of Nakhchivan Autonomous Rep ublic and belonging to IV-I millenniu m BC, such as Noah's land, Nakhchivan
, Nehram, Nahajir, Nuhdaban, Nuhgadik , Peygamberayagi, Hacha mountain, Gap ijig, Garangush plateau, Nabi land, K amki mountain, Noah's grave, Nurgut a nd Nursu the existence of place names and settlements are another visual p roof of Noah's life in this land.Nume rous place names and geographical nam es in the territory of Nakhchivan inc rease the probability that the story of the legendary ark took place in Na khchivan. Also, in the folklore mater ials and toponyms of Nakhchivan, not only the landing of the ark, but the whole process before the settlement o
f the people on the ark was reflected . Myths and legends about the Prophet Noah and the World Flood also cover issues related to the Noah Flood and Nakhchivan. Nabi's homeland is mentio ned in toponyms and legends - means t he land of the prophet, that is, the land of the prophet Noah. Many of Gam igaya's rock paintings are in the ter ritory of Nabi's homeland.The lexical structure of some toponyms in the te rritory of Nakhchivan is connected wi th the name of the prophet Noah. This connection is confirmed by the fact that Noah landed in Nakhchivan for th
e first time during the "World Storm" , the remains of the ark were in this area, Noah was buried in the area ca lled "Old Castle", the name Nakhchiva n was interpreted as Nuhchikhan, the area was considered Noah's homeland. As well as, the fact that professiona l artist Bahruz Kangarli painted his works "Noah's Tomb" in nature, the ri chness of place names associated with Noah in the area confirms this idea. The sayings, proverbs and issues re lated to the Prophet Noah in Nakhchiv an did not appear by chance. These sa yings contain expressions about the a
ntiquity of the time in which Noah li ved and his prophecy: Noah informs of the Prophet, Noah is from that time, Noah saw the Nabi on the throne, Sul eyman in a diaper, the time of Noah, such a Noah is shed, the sky will be whole with the world. Noah says the p rophet does not say and so on.In the Nakhchivan region, the names of perso n associated with the Prophet Noah ar e also found: Noah, Nuhbaba, Nuhiddin , Nuhin, Nuhizar, Nuhmammad, Nuhu, Nu hzad, Nuhali, Nuhvali and others.Rese archer I.M Dyakonov linked Gamigaya's rock paintings and the connection of
Nakhchivan with Noah to a Sumerian l egend. The Sumerians called themselve s kangaroos. Therefore, a number of r esearchers equate the ancient Sumeria n people with the turks and the kenga r people. The Sumerians lived in betw een two rivers - Mesopotamia. Since t he Kangaroos also live in this area, they are sometimes considered to be t he same people, which is not true. Al though the Kangaroos lived in this ar ea, they later left Sumer and moved t o other areas.A number of European tr avelers and researchers have also pro vided information in their travelogue
s, road records and works that Prophe t Noah, the World Flood, which covere d the territory of Nakhchivan, the la nding of the Prophet Noah and his fol lowers in the territory of Nakhchivan , living and working here, their deat h and the presence of their graves in this region and the surrounding area , the presence of the tomb of the Pro phet Noah in the city of Nakhchivan a nd the tomb above on it. “Near the ab ove-mentioned city (Nakhchivan – I.H. ), there is a mountain where Noah's a rk is said to have stopped” (Flemish traveler Guillaume de Rubruck, 1254),
“There is a house on the mountain, which is said to have been erected by Prophet Noah himself after he left h is ark. It is also said that there i s a vineyard planted by Noah” (French monarch Jurden de Severak, 1310), “ There is another city called Nakhchiv an at the foot of the mountain where the ark of Noah stopped” (Bavarian so ldier Johann Schiltberger, 1402-1427) , “People call this mountain Mount Ar k, because Noah's ark rested on this mountain”. According to the locals, N akhchivan, the oldest city in the wor ld, was built 3 miles from the mounta
in where Noah's ark rested and got it s name from Noah. This city (Nakhchiv an - I.H.) is very old. The locals sa y that Noah came here to live after h e got off the ark. His burial place i s also here…” (John Bartifta Tavernye , XVII century), “Persian historians date the foundation of Nakhchivan to the most ancient times. The people as sociated it with Noah, who chose this place as the first human settlement after the flood. Not only do they say that the city of Nakhchivan was foun ded by Noah, but they also confirm th at he was buried here” (N.E. Engelgar
dt, 1851), “ If we believe the folk e tymology, Nakhchivan is the oldest ci ty in the world. The locals try to co nvince that after Noah left the ark, he came to the place where he got the name Nakhchivan” (I. Chopin,1852) an d so on.Russian researcher K.N.Smirno v said that Noah's grave was in Nakhc hivan and indicated its location.In c onclusion, we can say that Noah's ark was stuck in the Gamigaya, and they landed there. They lived in Nakhchiva n and died here as well. The tomb of Noah is in Nakhchivan, near the Old F ortress. Historical sources also conf
irm this. There are convincing versio ns confirming that the graves of the prophet Noah's sister Tuba, Yaphes, T urk and Alinja from this genealogy ar e also in this land. The graves of N oah's wife Naamzar and his mother are in Marand, South Azerbaijan. Accordi ng to researcher A.Gadimova, the mosq ue in the city of Marand was built wh ere the wife and mother of the Prophe t Noah were buried. Noah's sons Ham, Shem, Yaphes, and Kanan also visited this area, and later some of them spr ead to the surrounding areas. The bas is of Turkism is connected with Yaphe
s. At the Russian Academy of Sciences , there was the “Yaphaschilik” Instit ute, which was named after Yaphes, an d was headed by Academician Marr. It is believed that the Darakand tomb wa s later built on the tomb of Yaphes. Thus, historical sources, myths, lege nds, rumors and historical truths sho w that the "universial" flood also co vered Nakhchivan. It was in this area that Noah's followers landed and liv ed. The graves of some of them were i n Nakhchivan. A tomb was built over t he gaves of Noah and Yaphes.GalleryRe ferencesFurther readingExternal links