Gravestone inscriptions in the village of Inekdağı

Inekdağı (starting from 1873, the name Imakdağı was written as “Inekdağı” in Armenian sources for some reason, perhaps intentionally), in the village called Yenikend since 1976

Basarkechar district – Vardenis, Inekdağı village, Tretuk since 19.04.1991

Decorative applied art

Many of the tombstones in the village of Inekdağı have been destroyed by Armenians. The rest have had Armenian elements added to them, have been Armenianized, and are presented as "Armenian monuments."

Located in the southeast of Lake Goycha, 13 kilometers north of the village of Basarkejar (now the city of Vardenis), at an altitude of 2109 meters above sea level, the remains of the tombstones in the ancient cemetery of this village dating back to the 4th-5th centuries are material evidence testifying to the at least 1500-year history of the construction of Imakdağ by the Oghuz Turks. In sources from the 16th century, Imakdağı is characterized as one of the Turkish oblasts included in the administrative division of the Karabakh (Ganja) beylerbeyli of the Safavid-Azerbaijani state. The number of Azerbaijanis in the village was 317 in 1873; In subsequent periods, this figure increased dynamically, reaching 469 in 1886, 517 in 1897, 567 in 1904, and 674 in 1914. Between April 13 and 20, 1919, during the atrocities committed by Andronikos' bandit army in Goycha, the village of Inekdağı was also plundered, and the population was forced to temporarily leave their homeland and mainly sought refuge in the Shamkir region. Although the number of people who returned to the village in 1922 was only 297 people, that is, 40 percent of the population in 1914, the restoration and improvement of Inekdagi was carried out rapidly, and in 1931 the village population reached 383 people. Since this development worried the Armenians, Inekdagi, like other villages in the region, was constantly subjected to repressions, a number of the village's intellectuals were exiled as opponents of the establishment of the collective farm, and some were removed from the village as part of the state-level deportation policy implemented in 1948-1953. In 1988, more than 1,800 villagers were deported within 3 days.

The first name of the village is "Inekdaghi" meaning "Cow Mountain" and is named after the cow-shaped mountain located on a hill in the northern part of the village. The village is located 19 km from the district center Basarkechar. According to historical sources, the establishment of the village of Inekdaghi is associated with the name of Gazakh Mammad, a member of the Derishdi tribe, at the beginning of the 18th century (1715–1720).