ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Gyulabli 1 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Aghdam (District) / Gyulabli (Village)

Location

The vast quarters of the two neighboring villages of Gulabli and Abdal presently included into the Aghdam district are situated in the area of one of the richest valleys of historical Varanda, in the wide side of a long wedge shaped canyon.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.

Population
19 c․

The Turkish tribes that were forcibly settled here in the XIX century had been known as hijackers. They plundered the neighboring villages till the beginning of the XX century. In conformity with one of the contemporaneous press reports: “If there are any famous Turkish villages in Karabakh, which produce hijackers, whose activity is somewhat of a legend, told in Armenian villages by one to another; if there are any famous Turkish villages, where the Armenian has to cross himself when passing by, then one of such villages is Gulaplu, which surpasses all other villages in hijack, such, for instance, as Seidlar, Shellu, Ghajar, Zargar, Dilagharda, etc.”

"Nor Dar", 1903, N 52, p. 3 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.

Presumably being Armenian till the middle of the XVIII century, Gulaplu was later occupied by the Turkish nomads that preserved the traces of Armenian culture till the end of the XIX century. As witnessed by one of the visitors: “the Turkish village Gulaplu, which has 700 households, may be also included into the list of the Armenian villages of Varanda. Armenian graves are still visible in that village. They say that being aware of the good and favorable position of that village, the Turks, gradually chased the Armenians away, so the latter had to retreat to the mountainous villages, while the Turks settled here and lived splendidly well. What else could we add about the location: very large orchards, fruit trees, a lot of water mills and all of this serves to the enrichment of the Turkish nation...”

Obvious exaggeration, as the village had only 250 households in 1886, which comprised 876 M, 536 F Turkish residents), see Update of the Statistical Data Derived from the Household Lists of the Caucasus Population. Yelisavetpol Province, Tiflis, 1888, p. 176-177 (in Russian).
"Nor Dar", 1887, N 109, p. 2 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 215.

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