Destruction of Jugha

[Yilmaz]

"The Destruction of Jugha and the Entire Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nakhijevan"

92 page book, A4 size, softback, Contains many colour and black & white photographs.

Published in Berne, Switzerland, in 2006. The publisher's price, printed on the back cover, is 26 Euro (that's about £23 / $34).

The book is in English, some of the articles within it also in French. The book is in new and unread condition.

It contains a history and descriptions of the archaeological site of old Jugha (Julfa), an important Armenian town that flourished between the 15th and 17th centuries AD. The site now lies within Azerbaijan. This book documents its complete destruction by Azerbiajani soldiers between 1998 and 2006 - an act that has been described as cultural genocide.

From Wikipedia:

Founded as a village in the early Middle Ages, Julfa grew into a town between the 10th and 13th centuries, with an almost entirely Armenian population. For a time, Julfa was one of the most important settlements in historic Armenia. It became prosperous from the 15th to the 17th centuries due to the role its Armenian merchants played in international trade: the caravans of those merchants travelled the ancient trade routes from Persia, India, South-East Asia and the Middle East, to Russia, the Mediterranean, and North-West Europe. .... In October 1605, Shah Abbas I of Persia issued an edict declaring that the entire population of Julfa must leave their homes and move deep into the Persian Empire. .... About three thousand families were deported from Julfa, and many drowned while attempting to cross the Aras. After the deportation was completed, the town was destroyed by fire to prevent the inhabitants from returning.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the remains of the medieval settlement included a massive ruined bridge, two large caravanserais (one on the Iranian side of the border), the walls of a fortress, and several Armenian churches. The most notable remnant from old Julfa was the town's huge Armenian cemetery, located to the west of the ruined city, on three low hills divided by small valleys, which contained the largest surviving collection of Armenian Khachkar tombstones, most dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.

According to Argam Aivazian's investigations at the cemetery from 1971 to 1973, there were, either upright or fallen, 462 khachkars on the first cemetery hill, 1,672 khachkars on the second, and 573 on the third. In addition to these khachkars there were in the same cemetery more than a thousand ram-shaped, gabled, or flat tombstones. An additional 250 khachkars were counted in the cemetery of the nearby Amenaprkich monastery and in other parts of the city site. The number of khachkars and ram-shaped tombstones buried in the earth or in fragments, in the main cemetery and elsewhere, was estimated to be more than 1,400.

Between 1998 and 2006 the entire cemetery was destroyed. The various stages of the destruction process have been documented by photographic and video evidence taken from the Iranian side of the border. Government and state officials of Azerbaijan have denied that any destruction has taken place, stating that an Armenian cemetery never existed on the site and that Armenians have never lived in Julfa. Azerbaijan has, to date, refused neutral observers access to the site.

via http://vesta923.livejournal.com/83690.html

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