Ashaghi Garanlig tombstone monument

In Ashaghi Ga­­ranlig City-type settlement on the shore of Goycha Lake in Yeni Ba­yazid uezd, Ira­van Governo­rate

Ashaghi Ga­ran­lig since 1926 Martuni, since 7.11.1995

included in the territory of Gegharkunik governorate

Architec­ture

Currently, it is presented as an Armenian mo­nument.

The village of Ashaghi Garanliq was the home of the Garagoyunlu people of the ancient state of Azerbaijan. The village has developed in terms of trade and crafts. Inside and outside the village, the buildings of that period remained in ruins until the deportation in 1988. Con­ducting archaeological excavations in the village will ensure that important monu­ments related to the history of Azer­baijan will be revealed there. Ashaghi Ga­ranlig village is the area with the most ancient Oghuz graves and grave monu­ments. Chests and tombstones with pat­terns and horse and ram figures and inscriptions give the cemetery the ap­pearan­ce of a museum of monuments. The tombstone of Ahmed ibn Gasim (1540-1575), one of the Oghuz nobles of the Garagoyunlu tribe, is also located he­re. The toponym has adopted the suffix -liq, which means "hill" and "rock" in Tur­kish, and means “hilly, mountainous, rocky place”.