Çullu () is a village situated on Goyan steppe, 27 km west of the city of

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, within the Dagh Tumas administrative-territorial unit of Jabrayil District,

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Toponym

According to the "Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Toponyms of Azerbaijan", the village was originally called Chollu. This name was associated with the name of the Chol tribe of Hunnic origin.

History

During the years of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, Chullu village was part of Jabrayil district, Elizavetpol province. During the Soviet years, the village was part of Jabrayil district,

Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...

. The village was captured by Armenian forces in the

First Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War ( hy, Արցախյան ազատամարտ, Artsakhyan azatamart) was an ethnic conflict, ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 t ...

and was destroyed. On 28 October 2020, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that Chullu village in Jabrayil district was liberated and returned under the control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

Population

According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886”, in the village of Chullu, Kovshutli rural district, Jabrayil district, there were 22 dym and 88 residents Azerbaijanis (listed as “Tatars”), who were Shiites by religion and peasants. According to the “ Caucasian Calendar” for 1912, 165 people lived in the village of Chullu, Karyagin district, mostly

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, listed as “Tatars”. According to the publication “Administrative Division of the ASSR”, prepared in 1933 by the Department of National Economic Accounting of the Azerbaijan SSR (AzNEA), as of 1 January 1933, in the village of Chullu, which was part of Dagh Tumas village council, Jabrayil district of

, there were 35 farms and 184 residents. The entire population of the village council was formed by Azerbaijanis (in the source - “Turks”).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cullu, Jabrayil Populated places in Jabrayil District