Ancient serdab in Akarak village

Monument date:
XVII c.
Placement /
Previous toponym:

In the village of Akarak (al­so known as Kharaba Aka­rak) of present Talin district, Alexandropol uezd, Iravan Governorate.

Placement /
Current toponym:

Talyn district - Talin, Akarak village - Agarak.

Classification:

Architec­ture

Current situation

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.

Information:

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.

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