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Gullubulag tombstone monuments

Monument date
XVIII-XIX c.
Placement
Previous toponym

İn Gullubulag village in Ama­siya (Aghbaba) district.

Placement
Current toponym

In 2007, it was named Burakn

Classification

Architec­ture

Current situation

After the 1988 deportation, so­me of the mo­nu­ments in the village were des­troyed and the rest were Armenianized.

Information

The Gullubulag cemetery was the an­cient home of the Turkic-Oghuz tribes. In the so-called ancient cemetery, there are many horse and ram tombstones. In addition, inscriptions and images of Albanian and various Turkic tribes were found on some tombstones. In Gullu­bulag there were many toponyms related to the names of national heroes: Koroglu cave, Nigar valley, Nabi River, etc. In the village there were mosques, pirs, pilgrimages and ancient grave monu­ments. Gullubulag village was the largest village of Amasiya (Aghbaba) region of Western Azerbaijan. Azerbaijanis lived in this village until 1988. After the 1988 deportation, Armenians from Bogda­nov­ka region of Georgia settled in Gullu­bulag village.