Məlhəm

Məlhəm
Məlhəm
Municipality
	Məlhəm
	Coordinates: 40°41′30″N 48°37′50″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Shamakhi
Population
• Total	1,378
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Məlhəm (also, Mel’gam and Mel’kham) is a village and municipality in the Shamakhi Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,378.

Khaqani was born in this village.

Part of the village residents are Tats and they speak the Tat language, which belongs to the Iranian language group. Due to the economic difficulties that arose after the collapse of the USSR, a large number of rural residents migrated, especially to Russia. The population of the village is 1347, of which 687 are men and 660 are women. [1]

References

Məlhəm at GEOnet Names Server

Notable residents

Khaqani

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