Ağbulaq, Nakhchivan

Ağbulaq (also as Aghbulag, Akbulak; until 2003,[1] Geçəzur, Gecəzur, Gedzhazur, and Gidzhadzur) is a village and municipality in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 16 km in the north-east from the district center. People of the village basically is busy with animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 445.[2]

Ağbulaq
Municipality
Ağbulaq
Coordinates: 39°26′50″N 45°43′21″E
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
RayonShahbuz
Population
 (2005)
 • Total445
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)

Etymology

The name of the village is associated with name of the Ağbulaq (White spring) spring in its territory. Its previous name was Gecəzur. According to researchers, the name of the village made out of the words of gecə (dark) and Persian word of zur (valley) means, "dark valley". Since 2003, the name of the village has officially been registered as Ağbulaq.[3]

History

Till the end of the 80s, Armenians were lived in the Ağbulaq village beside Azerbaijanis. In the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, 250 thousand Azerbaijanis who lived in the territory of Armenia were all deported to Azerbaijan and all of them took shelter in the different territories of Azerbaijan, including in the village of Ağbulaq, at the same time Armenians who lived in the Ağbulaq, were deported to the Armenia.[4][5]

According to the results of the population census cameral, launched in April 1829 and ended in May 1832 by the leadership Ivan Ivanovich Chopin's, in the Gecəzur village of the Nakhchivan district of the Nakhchivan province of the Armenian Oblast (On March 16, 1828, according to the fifteenth paragraph of the Treaty of Turkmenchay, concluded on February 10, 1828, the Armenians deported from Qajar Empire to the Azerbaijan) at 13 houses were lived 54 Armenians (30 men, 24 women) resettled to here from Iran.[6]

References
  1. Azerbaijan Parliament - law renaming the village and municipality
  2. ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. volume I. Baku: ANAS. p. 16. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9.
  3. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Azerbaijan Toponyms. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. ISBN 978-9952-34-155-3.
  4. "State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Deals of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons". Archived from the original on 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  5. REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS
  6. Шопен Иван Иванович. "памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху ее присоединения к Российской империи." Санкт-Петербург, Издательство: Типография Императорской Академии Наук, 1852 г. Оглавление: Часть III, Отделение III. Народонаселение, Глава шестая. Народонаселение, 2. Число народонаселение в настоящее время, Таблица народонаселения Армянской области, стр. 607-610
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