Gabakhli village tombstone monuments

In the Ga­bakhli village cemetery of Keshishkand district, Dara­la­yaz mahal. 

Keshishkand has been named Yeghegnadzor since 1957, and the village of Gabakhli has been named Goghtanik since 1990.

Architec­ture

Currently, this cemetery has been comple­te­ly destroyed by Armenians. A part of the gra­ve stone ram and chest left there is presen­ted as an Arme­nian monument.

The toponym is added to the name of the Turkic Gabaq tribe and means "a place, a village belonging to the Gabaq tribe". According to the first population census of the Russian Empire dated January 28 - February 9, 1897, Iravan Governorate, Sharur-Daraleyaz uezd, there were 566 people (312 men, 254 women) in the village of Gabakhli, and all of them were Muslims. In the old cemetery of the village of Gabakhli, Keshishkand district of Daralayaz district, there were many tombstone rams and chests.Monuments on graves and pla­ce names and to­ponyms of Azer­baijani ori­gin con­firm that the village of Ga­bakhli was his­torically the ho­meland of Azer­baijanis and that they li­ved here. After the 1988 depor­tation, the first Armenian families moved to the village.