Western Azerbaijan Heritage

In the village of Shidli (Ga­ra­go­yunlu Shidli) on the bank of the Araz river, in the lowlands of Vedibasar mahal, opposite to Aghridaghi.

On April 9, 1991, the name of Shidli vil­lage was chan­ged to Yekheg­navan.

Arts and crafts

Until 1950, the stones with ima­ges of horses and rams that remained in the territory of Shid­li village we­re taken away and dest­ro­yed by Arme­nians in the na­me of historical monuments.

In M. Kalankatuklu's "History of Al­ba­nia", at the beginning of the thirty-seventh year of Khosrov Shah's reign, it is men­tioned that there was a nephew called Shad among the Northern Khan Khazars, who was called Shad due to his princely rank, and it is shown that Shad set up his camp on the banks of the Araz River. It is a village where there are a lot of mo­nu­ments with inscriptions written on large pieces of stone, pictures of horses and rams. These monuments were signs of the history of Shidli village 1300-1350 years ago.The toponym Shidli was for­med on the basis of the word shad­li, which was formed by adding the suffix -lı, which is related to the word shad, which is used in the sense of a military title in Turks, or rather in Khazars.