Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Iravan Gover­no­rate, Echmi­ad­zin uezd, in the Garabulag village in the current Abaran District.

The name of Garabulag vil­lage was chan­ged to Yerin­jatap on 15.07.1946.

Architec­ture

The Turkish-Og­huz tomb­sto­nes located in the village of Ga­rabulag were destroyed by Ar­­menians. So­me of them we­re Armeniani­zed.

There was also an ancient cemetery 100-150 meters from the building. About 20 Albanian graves with different patterns and inscriptions were buried into the ground near the house of villager Goshu­nali Bag­hır oghlu (1923-1981). These square and hexagonal chest stones were 1.5 m long and 60-70 cm thick. In 1974-1975, large-sized human bones were also discovered during the excavation works in those pla­ces. In 1972-1973, when ex­cavation work was carried out on two artificial hills (3-5 meters high) in the western part of the village (200-300 m from the houses) near the Bichanak-akanek field, human bones were found in the middle of the circular stone masonry, 4 large and 3-4 small jugs of different sizes were found.

The facts show that the process of Turkification took place in the Albanian tri­bes even be­fore Islam, and they accepted Islam and par­ticipated in the formation of the Azerbaijani people.