Mollali

Mollali was a village in the territory of the Zangezur uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Gafan district, and present-day Syunik province. It was located 16 km to the northeast of the town of Gafan and on the right bank of the Gighi River.

The village was inhabited by 34 Azerbaijanis in 1897 and 156 Azerbaijanis in 1914. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their homes. The village was inhabited by 45 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 38 in 1926 and 46 in 1931. The village was abolished in the 1940s.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the ethnonym “Mollali” of the Aliyanli branch of the Turkic Garachorlu tribe.