Ancient serdab in Akarak village
In the village of Akarak (also known as Kharaba Akarak) of present Talin district, Alexandropol uezd, Iravan Governorate.
Talyn district - Talin, Akarak village - Agarak.
Architecture
At the present time, the entrance part of the ancient serdab in the village of Akarak, which was built in the Eastern style, has remained almost as it is, and there are fences on the roof and back. In abandoned and derelict condition.
The serbad, an ancient building in the village of Akarak, was built adjacent to the mosque. The serbad was built with river stone and white lime on the right side of the mosque wall, and the roof was covered with small stones in a dome-like manner. It has an oriental style entrance door. 70 people lived in the village in 1831, 301 in 1873, 367 in 1886, 482 in 1897, 284 in 1904, 301 in 1914, 601 in 1916. In 1918, the inhabitants of the village, which was attacked by Armenians, were deported from their historical-ethnic lands, and in 1920, Armenians who were transferred from Sasun and Taron governorates of Turkey were settled here. After the establishment of the Soviet government in present-day Armenia, the survivors of the Azerbaijanis who left the village were able to return to their ancestral lands. Apart from Armenians, 12 Azerbaijanis lived here in 1922.
The toponym "eker" was formed on the basis of the Turkish ethnonym. It is an ethnotoponym. It's a structurally corrected toponym.