Dağ Tumas

Dagh Tumas (Azerbaijani: Dağ Tumas) is a village in the administrative unit with the same name of Jabrayil District of Azerbaijan,[1] located on the southwestern slopes of Karabakh ridge, 23 km to the west of Jabrayil city.

[1] During the years of the Russian Empire, the village of Tumasly was part of the Jabrayil district, the Elizavetpol province.

[3] According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886,” in the village of Tumasly, Tumasly rural district, Jabrayil district, there were 119 dym and lived 506 Azerbaijanis (listed as “Tatars”), who were Sunnis by religion, 17 of them were representatives of the clergy, the rest were peasants[4] According to the “Caucasian Calendar” for 1910, in the village of Tumas, Karyagin district, in 1907 here lived 599 people, most were Azerbaijanis, indicated in the calendar as “Tatars”.

[5] 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 Dagh Tumas, which was part of Dagh Tumas village council of the Jabrayil district of Azerbaijan SSR, there were 106 farms and 529 inhabitants.

The village population was engaged in livestock farming, wheat cultivation, viticulture and sericulture