Cemetery monuments in Madina village

In the Madina village of the present Garanlig district, Yeni Beyazid uezd of Iravan governorate

Garanlig district - Martuni, Madina village exists in the present period. It is written as Madina in documents by Armenians.

Architecture

Many of the gravestone monuments in the village of Madina were destroyed, Armenian crosses and Armenian inscriptions were written on the remaining ones, and they were appropriated by Armenians and presented as "Armenian monuments".

Madina village is the largest and oldest settlement of Goycha. In the village there are epitaphs and monuments with examples of Oghuz culture from the VII century. The 2-3 meter high Oghuz graves, chests and grave ram statues in the ancient cemetery show that the history of settlement of Turkic tribes here spans long periods. The ruins of ancient sacred places in the village remained until the deportation in 19871991. Only Azerbaijanis lived in the village: 208 people in 1873, 296 people in 1886, 346 people in 1897, 429 people in 1908, 752 people in 1914, and 736 people in 1916. In 1918 Azerbaijanis were subjected to the genocide of Armenians and expelled from the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, a small number of the surviving villagers have returned. In 1922, 85 Azerbaijanis lived there. Armenians were moved to the village in 1923-1924. In 1926, apart from Armenians, 61 Azerbaijanis lived there. Local residents of the village, Azerbaijanis, were suppressed and deported from their historical-ethnic lands in the 1930s, and Armenians from Turkey and Iran were settled in the village.

The toponym is derived from the Arabic word “Madina” which means "city". It is a simple toponym in structure.