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Cemetery inscriptions in Allahverdibayli village

Monument date
V–VI c.
Placement
Previous toponym

In Allahverdibeyli village, bordering Abbasoglu village of Yelenovka district

Placement
Current toponym

Yelenovka district – Sevan since 1935

Classification

Architecture

Current situation

Remains of the inscriptions existed until the mass deportation of Azerbaijanis in 19871991.

Information

In the village of Allahverdibeyli, there were many monuments bearing the traces of the Oghuz cult of the 5th-6th centuries. The tombstones in the ancient cemetery and the remains of the tombstone inscriptions on them are material evidences that testify to at least 1,500 years of the settlement of the Oghuz Turks in these places. Only Azerbaijanis lived in the village. In Armenian sources, the name of the village is found for the first time in the list compiled by I. Shopen about 67 out of 108 Azerbaijani villages destroyed by Armenian-Russian military units in Goycha district during the Russia-Iran and RussiaTurkey wars that took place in 1826-1829. In another list drawn up by the same historian - in the list of places considered suitable for habitation in Goycha district, which was given to the administration of the newly created Armenian province, and in the official reports of the subsequent periods, this ancient village does not have its name. Armenians did not allow the reconstruction of the destroyed village

In the sources of the second half of the 16th century Allahverdibeyli which was characterized as one of the administrative units, included in the Kavar region of Chukhursad Baylarbey of the Safavid state..