Çullu () is a village situated on Goyan steppe, 27 km west of the city of

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, within the Dagh Tumas administrative-territorial unit of

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Toponym

According to the "Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Toponyms of Azerbaijan", the village was originally called Chollu. This name was associated with the name of the Chol tribe of Hunnic origin.

History

During the years of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, Chullu village was part of

Jabrayil district Jabrayil District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khojavend, Fuzuli, Qubadli, Zangilan, and t ...

, Elizavetpol province. During the Soviet years, the village was part of

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. The village was captured by Armenian forces in the

First Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh bac ...

and was destroyed. On 28 October 2020, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that Chullu village in

was liberated and returned under the control of the

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Population

According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886”, in the village of Chullu, Kovshutli rural district, Jabrayil district, there were 22 dym and 88 residents Azerbaijanis (listed as “Tatars”), who were Shiites by religion and peasants. According to the “ Caucasian Calendar” for 1912, 165 people lived in the village of Chullu, Karyagin district, mostly

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, listed as “Tatars”. According to the publication “Administrative Division of the ASSR”, prepared in 1933 by the Department of National Economic Accounting of the Azerbaijan SSR (AzNEA), as of 1 January 1933, in the village of Chullu, which was part of Dagh Tumas village council, Jabrayil district of

, there were 35 farms and 184 residents. The entire population of the village council was formed by Azerbaijanis (in the source - “Turks”).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cullu, Jabrayil Populated places in Jabrayil District