Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Iravan until 1828, 1828-1936 Erivan.

From 1936 Yere­van.

Architec­ture

The historical mo­numents in the Iravan ce­metery were destro­yed by the Armenians.

The ancient cemetery in the city of Iravan is rich with tombstones belonging to different periods of the history of Azerbaijan. In the cemetery, where there are many Turkish-Oghuz monuments, there are two statues of rams in a frame on a stone slab, and an image of a boy from the middle centuries standing on a horse with a bow in his hand, ram figures, and human images on stone. The abundance of such monuments in the cemetery indicates the ancient history of Azerbaijan in the area.

The monuments belonging to the Turkic-Oghuz tribes in the ce­metery, which keep the his­torical traces of the ancient era alive in Iravan, are of great im­portance in terms of the stu­dy of the an­cient period of Azerbaijan's his­tory, in addi­tion to the fact that the region is the homeland of Azerbaijan.