Julfa

Julfa is the administrative capital of the Julfa Rayon administrative location of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan. Julfa is separated by means of the Araks River from its namesake, the city of Jolfa on the Iranian side of the border. The cities are connected by using a road bridge and a railway bridge. Traditionally, the king of Armenia, Tigranes I, became said to have been the founder of Julfa.Existing as a village inside the early Middle Ages, it grew into a city between the tenth and 13th centuries, with a population that changed into nearly absolutely Armenian

For a time, Julfa changed into one of the maximum vital settlements in medieval Armenia. It have become rich at some point of the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries due to the position it played in worldwide alternate, because it become placed alongside the ancient exchange routes from Persia, the Middle East, South-East Asia, India, to Russia, the Mediterranean, and North-West Europe.