Cave (zaga) in Kursali village

In the village of Gursali in the Hamamli district of Pambak mahal

Hamamli district - from 1849 Spitak, the name of Gursalı village has not changed since.

Archaeological monument

Armenians destroyed the historical monument in the 1970s under the name of expanding the Kirovakan-Spitak road.

The cave (zaga) is located in Kursali village of Hamamli (Spitak) district. The historical monument called "Zagha" was in the area near the Afandi valley. Inside the cave, there were stone images and inscriptions from different periods of Azerbaijan's history. Armenians destroyed the historical monument in the 1970s under the name of expanding the Kirovakan-Spitak road. 73 only Azerbaijanis lived in village in 1831, 445 in 1873, 545 people in 1886, 713 people in 1897, 824 people in 1904, 999 people in 1914, and 877 people in 1916. In 1918, the village was massacred by Armenians and the Azerbaijanis were deported. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, Azerbaijanis who left the village were able to return to their ancestral lands. 839 people lived here in 1922, 954 people in 1926, 1033 people in 1931, and 2700 people in 1987 only Azerbaijani population lived here. In 1987-1991 Azerbaijanis were deported from their historical ethnic lands. Armenians currently live in the village.

In Armenian sources, the development of the name of the village in the form of Kursali was formed on the basis of the personal name Ali with the ethnonym "Khurs"  from the Turkic tribe of Kangarli as a toponym. It means "village belonging to Ali from the Khurs (Kurs) tribe". It is an ethnotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym.