Boyəhməd

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Boyəhməd is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It sits about 64 km north of the district center, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River near the Zangezur ridge. The village has a secondary school, a club, a library and a medical center. About 267 people lived there in 2005. The name comes from the Boyahmedli tribe of the Turkic Gazakhlar and is considered an ethnolinguistic place name.

Archaeological sites near Boyəhməd
- Boyahmedli I: An Iron Age settlement northwest of the village, on the left bank of the Daryachay River. It covers about 1500 square meters. It was registered as an archaeological site in 1991. Surface finds include pottery fragments and pink and gray pot fragments made from tuff; some pieces are black-painted and polished. The finds are kept at the Museum of History and Ethnography of Julfa. The site likely dates to the first half of the 1st millennium BC.

- Boyahmedli II: A medieval settlement southwest of the village, on the right bank of the Daryachay River. It covers about 1300 square meters. Remains of stone buildings and pits have been found. Artifacts include broken millstones and pink and gray clay products. It is thought to belong to the 3rd–9th centuries.

- Boyahmedli III: A medieval settlement northeast of the village, on a hillside. The area is about 1600 square meters. The site includes a necropolis and remains of stone-built structures. The graves face toward Qibla and are mostly rectangular. It is estimated to date from the 14th–17th centuries.

- Boyahmed Necropolis I: An archaeological site southwest of the village on both sides of the Daryachay River, covering about 5000 square meters. Discovered during road construction in 1989. Burial goods include ornaments, bronze daggers, a pitchfork, a chain, spear tips, and various clay items. Skeletons and multiple skulls were found, indicating a burial tradition from the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.

- Boyahmed Necropolis II: An Iron Age necropolis to the north of the village on a mountain slope. Studied in 1991. Graves have no clear surface markers. Among the finds were two bronze bracelets, a bronze knife and clay pots, suggesting a date in the early 1st millennium BC.