Komurlu

Komurlu or Gomurlu was a village in the territory of the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Keshishkend (Yeghegnadzor) district, and currently in the Vayots Dzor province. It was located near the village of Yelpin, at the Akhta River, the left tributary of the Arpachay. The village was noted as “Komur” in “The Iravan Province Review Book”, as “Kyomurlu” in Armenian sources and marked as “Gomurlu” on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 95 in 1873, 147 in 1886, 192 in 1897, 205 in 1904, 225 in 1914 and 259 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed formations in 1918. Later, the village was abolished. At present, it lies in ruins. The toponym was coined by adding the suffix “-lu” to the word “komur” meaning “a narrow steepy place high on a mountain” in Turkic.

The toponym means “a village built on a steepy place, high on a mountain”.