Seldaghilan

Seldaghilan was a village in the territory of the Aghbaba area (nahiya) of the Kars uezd of the former Kars province, later in the former Amasiya (Aghbaba) district, and present-day Shirak province. It was located 15 km to the northwest of Amasiya and at the foot of Aghbaba Mountain.

The village was inhabited by Azerbaijanis. In their sources Armenian authors state that the village was inhabited by the Garapapags who were one of the ethnographic groups of the Azerbaijanis. The village was inhabited by 231 Azerbaijanis in 1886, 360 in 1887, 359 in 1908 and 414 Azerbaijanis in 1914. The village was devastated as a result of attacks by Armenian armed formations in February 1920 and the inhabitants were dispersed. According to the Treaty of Kars, the village was integrated within the Aghbaba area into Soviet Armenia in 1921. After that, the village inhabitants migrated to Türkiye. At present, the village is devastated.

The toponym was coined by combining the word “sel” meaning “flood” and the participle “daghilan”.