Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Ganja Gover­no­rate, Zanga­zur mahal, in Aghudi village of in the cur­rent Sisyan Dist­rict

From 19.04.1991 Aghudi village was named Agitu.

Architec­ture

The tombstone with the figure of a ram in the village of Aghu­di was appro­priated by Ar­menians and is presented as an Armenian mo­nument.

The richness of the history of Aghudi village is confirmed by the large number of Turkic-Oghuz monuments there. In the area called the old cemetery, there are Oghuz graves, gravestone statues and chests, similarities with Nuvedi and Urud monuments. There, a tombstone with a ram figure dating back to the middle centuries was carved out of the rock215. The fact that the figure has the fineness of a statue shows that art and craft were developing at that time. 60 Azer­baijanis lived in the Medieval Vil­lage in 1831, 450 in 1873, 903 in 1886, 1162 in 1897, 1345 in 1908, and 1070 in 1914. In 1918, 400 Azerbaijanis were stuffed into a mosque by Armenians and burned, and the rest of the population was expelled from the village216. After the establishment of Soviet power in pre­sent-day Armenia, the sur­viving villagers were able to return to their native homes. 298 Azerbaijanis lived here in 1922, 319 in 1926, 496 in 1931, 828 in 1959, and 1222 in 1970.