Ağbulaq (also as Aghbulag, Akbulak; until 2003, Geçəzur, Gecəzur, Gedzhazur, and Gidzhadzur) is a village and municipality in the

Shahbuz District Shahbuz District () is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Julfa, Babek, and the Syunik and Vayots Dzor provinces of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is Shahbu ...

of Nakhchivan,

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. It is located 16 km in the north-east from the district center. The People of the village are typically busy with animal husbandry. There are secondary schools, clubs, a library, medical center and a Ski Resort in the village. It has a population of 445.

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

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word of ''zur'' (valley) means, "dark valley". Since 2003, the name of the village has officially been registered as Ağbulaq.

History

Till the end of the 80s,

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were lived in the Ağbulaq village beside

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. In the beginning of the

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, 250 thousand Azerbaijanis who lived in the territory of

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were all deported to

and all of them took shelter in the different territories of

, including in the village of Ağbulaq, at the same time Armenians who lived in the Ağbulaq, were deported to the Armenia. 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

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(On March 16, 1828, according to the fifteenth paragraph of the

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, concluded on February 10, 1828, the

deported from

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to the Azerbaijan) at 13 houses were lived 54

(30 men, 24 women) resettled to here from

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.Шопен Иван Иванович.
Исторический 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

Monuments

St. Astvatsatsin Church was an Armenian church located in the central part of the village. The church was founded in the 12th or 13th and was destroyed at some point between 1997 and 2009.

References

* Populated places in Shahbuz District {{Nakhchivan-geo-stub

Etymology

History

Monuments

See also

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