Kolanı (also, Kelany and Kolany) 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 in the left side of the

Yevlakh Yevlakh (, ) is a city in Azerbaijan, 265 km west of the capital of Baku. It is surrounded by but administratively separate from the Yevlakh District. Etymology The settlement is mentioned by the 13th century Armenian historian Stephen O ...

Lachin Lachin (, , ; ) is a town in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Lachin District. It was located within the strategic Lachin corridor, which used to link the Nagorno-Karabakh region with Armenia. The town was under control of Armen ...

-Nakhchivan highway, 10 km in the north-east from the district center, on the bank of the Nakhchivanchay River. Its population is busy with gardening and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, culture house, kindergarten, library and hospital in the village. It has a population of 1,662. Nearby the village have been discovered settlements and cemeteries of the medieval, ''Söyüdlü'' and in the south-west ''Quzey''.

Origin and Etymology

Kolanılar are an ancient Turkic tribe. According to the researchers, in the first half of the 18th century, ''Kolanılar'' has been moved from

Khorasan KhorasanDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed. Tehran, Zavvâr: 1375 (Solar Hijri Calendar) 235–236 (; , ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and no ...

by the Iranian Shah,

Nadir Shah Afshar Nader Shah Afshar (; 6 August 1698 or 22 October 1688 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was a ...

. In the middle of the 18th century - the first half of the 19th century, the territory of the ''Kolanılar'' which were living in the

Karabakh Khanate The Karabakh Khanate (also spelled Qarabagh; ; ) was a Khanates of the Caucasus, khanate under History of Iran, Iranian and later Russian Empire, Russian suzerainty, which controlled the historical region of Karabakh, now divided between modern ...

, was called the Kolanı district. The 19th century Azerbaijan historian Mirza Adygozel has named the bank of the Tartar River from the Ushajyg village up to Goyche province, as the territory of the ''Kolanılar''. In the 19th century, the tribe of ''Kolanılar'' consisting from 282 families were lived in the Javad province. Later, they settled in different places. According to the sources, during the attack of the

Mohammad Shah Qajar Mohammad Shah (; born Mohammad Mirza; 5 January 1808 – 5 September 1848) was the third Qajar ''shah'' of Iran from 1834 to 1848, inheriting the throne from his grandfather, Fath-Ali Shah. From a young age, Mohammad Mirza was under the tutela ...

to the Karabakh, some part of the tribes, including the ''Kolanılar'', have moved and settled in the Nakhchivan,

Shirvan Shirvan (from ; ; Tat: ''Şirvan'') is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known in both pre-Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times. Today, the region is an industrially and agriculturally developed part of the Republic of Azerbaijan ...

and in the other areas. The name of the Kolanı village of the Shahbuz district of Nakhchivan is related with the tribe of the ''Kolanılar''.''Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms''. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. .

Historical and archaeological monuments

Söyüdlü

''Söyüdlü'' - the place of residence of the

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in the north from the Kolany village of the Shahbuz rayon. It is located on the slope of the high hill. Its area is 12,500 m2. The remains of the destroyed building are clearly visible. The cultural layer was preserved. Surface materials consists of fragments of glazed and unglazed clay pot in the pink colored. The over plates have been covered with red paint, and some of them with the green glaze. There is a

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cemetery not far from the Söyüdlü settlement. The graves were destroyed, and the gravestones were broken. The researches have shown that the place of residence belongs to the 9-15 centuries.

Söyüdlü Necropolis

''Soyudlu Necropolis'' - the archaeological monument of the

in the territory of the Kolany village of the Shahbuz rayon. The gravestones in the

cemetery, were destroyed, and only remained a few of them; consists of ordinary slab stones. There is no any written or images on them. It is supposed that the monument belongs to the 13-15 centuries.

Quzey Necropolis

''Quzey Necropolis'' - the medieval monument in the territory of the Kolany village of the Shahbuz rayon. A considerable part of the graves were destroyed as a result of the washed by the rainwater. From the direction of the graves, were identified that it is the

cemetery. It is supposed that the monument belongs to the 11-12 centuries.

References

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