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Village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran

# Mahlezan

Mahlezan is a village in, and the capital of, Valdian Rural District in Ivughli District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

![Mahlezan](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Mahlezan_church.jpg/1920px-Mahlezan_church.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Mahlezan · Fabienkhan

The place

Mahlezan is a village in, and the capital of, Valdian Rural District in Ivughli District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Saidabad.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahlezan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Mahlezan

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Mahlezan Church Holy Cross Church of Mahlezan is an Armenian Apostolic church in Mahlezan, Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. 300 m · church in Mahlezan, Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Church,_Mahlezan)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Mahlezan

**Airports:** Nakhchivan (NAJ), 68 km · Tabriz (TBZ), 115 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 177 km\

- Nakhchivan → Mahlezan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nakhchivan-to-mahlezan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nakhchivan&to=Mahlezan)
- Ganja → Mahlezan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ganja-to-mahlezan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ganja&to=Mahlezan)
- Baku → Mahlezan Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/baku-to-mahlezan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Baku&to=Mahlezan)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Mahlezan)

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Mahlezan

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mahlezan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 125 km
2. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 260 km
3. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 335 km
4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 340 km
5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 380 km

If you know how people move in Mahlezan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmahlezan&title=Mahlezan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmahlezan), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Mahlezan

- [Vishlaq-e Sofla](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vishlaq-e-sofla) village in Iran 3.7 km
- [Bilavar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bilavar) village in Iran,khoy 3.6 km
- [Zarean](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zarean) village in Iran 3.8 km
- [Ersi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ersi) village in Iran 2.2 km

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