Researchers document Azerbaijani heritage in former village of molla-eyyublu

Researchers conducted fieldwork between 2021 and 2024 to document Azerbaijani heritage sites in Armenia.

The project, titled Places of Memory of Western Azerbaijan, aimed to identify surviving cultural landmarks in remote mountainous regions to prepare for a book called The Perished Civilization. The study focuses on the village of Molla-Eyyublu, which is currently known as Dzoramut in the Lori Province of the Republic of Armenia.

Researchers found that the village was inhabited predominantly by ancestors of Azerbaijanis during the Tsarist period and the Soviet era. Records show the population grew from 58 people in 1886 to 577 people in 1959. The village name changed to Dzoramut in April 1991 as part of a policy of Armenianization. Most Azerbaijani residents left the area in the late 1980s. During the recent fieldwork, the team discovered an Azerbaijani cemetery containing several dozen gravestones.

Many of these stones date to the 19th century and feature Arabic inscriptions.