Gülüstan, Nakhchivan
Gülüstan | |
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Village | |
| Coordinates: 38°59′00″N 45°35′22″E / 38.98333°N 45.58944°E | |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
| Population (2005) | |
• Total | 482 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Gülüstan (Armenian: Ջուղա, romanized: Jugha) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 5 km in the north-west from the district center, on the right bank of the Aras River.
The modern site of Gülüstan was originally the location of a district of the city of Julfa. The village was called Cuğa until 1999, derived from the Armenian name of the city. During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Armenian population of the village was ethnically cleansed.
Its current population is busy with farming and animal husbandry. There is a secondary school, a cultural house, two libraries, a communication center, and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 482.