Western Azerbaijan Heritage

In Jul village, Sharur-Dara­layaz uezd, la­ter Pashali (Aziz­bayov, Vayk), Iravan Governorate.

The name of Jul village has been called Artavan since 19.04.1950.

Architec­ture

Despite the fact that the Jul brid­ge carries Azer­baijani elements and is an archi­tectural examp­le, Armenians ha­ve repaired and presented the bridge they used as their mo­nument.

The bridge built in the village of Jul was built in the 17th century over the right branch of the Arpachay, the Julchay. First, the edge and the lower part of the bridge, which was built by throwing two belts with specially cut white marble sto­ne in an arc-like manner, then the upper part of the bridge was woven. The single-arched stone bridge was built using large river and rock stones in the style of orien­tal architecture. The name of the village is mentioned in historical sources from the 13th century. The toponym Chul was created on the basis of the Turkish ethno­nym. It is an ethnotoponym. It is a simple toponym in structure. On­ly Azerbaijanis lived in the village: in 1831 (56 men, 61 women), total 117 peop­le, in 1873 708, 1886 899, 1897 1214, 1904 1222, 1914 1344, 1916 1607 people. In 1918, the village was attacked by Arme­nians and its residents were de­ported. Af­ter the establishment of the So­viet go­vernment in Armenia, the sur­vi­ving resi­dents were able to return to their historical and ethnic lands. There were 717 people here in 1922, 1926 431, in 1931 950 Azerbaijanis lived there.

The Jul bridge is one of the im­portant material monuments lo­cated in his­to­rical lands from the architecture point of view.