Gravestones in the village of Kerimkend

In the village of Kerimkend, in the Yeni Beyazid district of the Yerevan province, now Kavar district

Kavar district was renamed Kamo on April 13, 1959, and the village of Kerimkend was renamed Zakkashen on March 2, 1940.

Architecture

Gravestones from the Albanian and Oghuz periods, which confirm that Azerbaijanis lived here in ancient times, remained 6–8 km northwest of the village of Khartlyg in the territory of the Qaranlyg district until the deportation of 1988.

 The tombstones are located in an ancient cemetery in the Yeni Bayazid district of Yerevan province, 6 km southwest of the current Kavar district center, in the area of ​​Kerimkand. The Albanian and Oghuz tombstones were made by hewing rock stones. The height of the Albanian monuments was 1.5–2 meters, and the height of the Oghuz graves was about 2–3 meters. The monuments of the ancient cemetery, dating back to the 8th–10th centuries, testify to both Albanian culture and Oghuz cult. The presence of Oghuz monuments indicates that the village is approximately 1,500 years old. The name of the village is found in the list prepared by I. Chopin of 67 settlements destroyed by Armenian-Russian military units in Goycha during the Iran-Russia and Turkey-Russia wars of 1826–1829. In the middle of the 19th century, the village was restored by its original owners, and this fact was reflected in official documents for 1873. Thus, in that year, it was determined by the Armenians themselves that 115 Azerbaijanis lived in Karimkend, in 1897 this figure was 213, in 1904 it was 286, and in 1914 it was 412. In 1914, the number of Armenians living here had already reached 511 people, which meant a sharp change in the demographic situation in their favor. In 1918, during the raid of Dashnak troops on the village, the Azerbaijani population was subjected to genocide. The survivors left the village. In 1922, several families returned.

The toponym Karim was formed by adding a geographical nomenclature of a village to a personal name. It is an anthropotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym.