Gravestone statues of horses and rams in the village of Elleroyugu

In the village of Elleroyugu, Aghbaba district of the Şorəyel district, later Amasya district

Ellar-oyugu village – Ellarkend since 1931, Lorasar since 08.08.1991

Architecture

The tombstones in the village of Elleroyugu have been appropriated by Armenians and are displayed as "Armenian monuments."

A village inhabited by Azerbaijanis 26 km northwest of the district center. There were many monuments belonging to ancient Turkic tribes in the village. Among them, the most notable were the horse and ram statues in the village cemetery. Most of these monuments, which are numerous, were transported to Yerevan by Armenians and are presented as Armenian monuments in the museums there.
It is located at an altitude of 2140 meters above sea level. Its population was 286 in 1905, 437 in 1914, 294 in 1931, and 292 in 1970, consisting only of Azerbaijanis. The population decrease by almost 2 times in the period 1914–1931 is the result of the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis in 1918–1920. In November-December 1988 and January 1989, the residents of the village - Azerbaijanis - were deported from their historical and ethnic lands. Now only Armenians live in the village.

Toponyms are formed from the combination of the word "el" (country), which means "tribal union, tribal organization", "people, tribe" in the ancient Turkic language, which has adopted the plural suffix, and the word "oğlu", which indicates kinship and is used in the third person singular. It is an ethnotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym.