A ram statue on a grave in the village of Zolahach (Zolaghac)

In the village of Zolakhach (Zolaghach) of the Karanlig district of the Goycha region

Garanlig district – Martuni, Zolakhach village, since 03.01.1935 Zolakar

Architecture

The ram statue located in the Zolagaj village cemetery has a hexagonal star and the Sun reflected on one side, while the inscription on the other side was erased by Armenians who were resettled in the village in the 19th century.

The length of the grave ram statue located in the ancient cemetery in the village of Zolagaj is about 1 meter and the height is about 0.5-0.6 meters. The statue was carved from yellow rock. The majesty and shape of the ram statue, made of hard, iron-containing rock, have remained unbroken to this day. On one side of the grave ram statue there is an “OZ seal”. This structure of the form was also often used by the Mongols. It is called “Fortune and the Spinning Wheel”. It is a synonym for coming from God and returning to God. On the other side there is one of the ancient tamgas, ED. It is called the Star of David or the Seal of Solomon, but the oldest examples of this stamp are still used in Turkish geographies.
The name of the village of Zolagac is found in the list compiled by I. Chopin. In 1831, the population of Zolagac, consisting only of Azerbaijanis, was 128 people. In the data for 1873, Zolagac was already included in the list of mixed settlements: 75 Armenians and 153 Azerbaijanis. After this date, the demographic balance rapidly changed in favor of Armenians due to those brought from Turkey. In 1897, the number of Armenians in the village was almost 3 times higher than the number of Azerbaijanis: 286 Armenians and 107 Azerbaijanis. During the massacres committed by Dashnak troops in Goycha in 1918, 131 Azerbaijanis from the village were subjected to genocide, and the survivors left the village. After 1922, the Azerbaijanis who returned to the village and restored their lives there were resettled to Azerbaijan in 1948.

These monuments and the seals depicted on them can be found in Western Azerbaijan, as well as in other Turkish regions, Nakhchivan, Van, Bitlis, Antalya and many other places. This shows that the ancient inhabitants of this territory were Turkic tribes, from which Azerbaijanis also descend.