Cəhri

Cəhri (Armenian: Ճահուկ, also, Jahri, Jagry, Dzhagry, and Dzhakhri) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

It is located 23 km in the north from the district center, on the bank of the Jahrichay River, on the foothill area.

The remaining ruins of the settlements of the Ishyqlar, Kandtapa, Uzuntapa, Goshatapa, Garajalar, Ayriarch show the ancient history of the village of the Jahri.

In the cemetery, located in the east side of the village, there are statues of the stone ram of the medieval ages.

[4][dubious – discuss] In the book Jahrichay Valley of the Haji Qadir Gadirzadeh the Corresponding Member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has interesting information on Jahri.

Known as sanctuary an Esfandiar Zawiya (shrine) in the sources and among the people, it is located in the west of the Jahry village, in the slope of the mountain range named Qaş.

This Sufi center, located in the mountainous area, about 2 kilometers in the west side from the Jahri village, is known since the Middle Ages.

[4][dubious – discuss] According to the "Code of Statistical Data on the Population of the Transcaucasian Territory" for 1893, the village counted 1101 Christian Armenians and 2018 Muslim Tatars.

A large part of the place of residence (approximately 16,000 m2) is covered with piles of ashes; inside it are found fragments of clay pots that seem it is associated with the activity of pottery.

The found materials are divided into two period; the fragments of the burned clay pot in the gray, black, pink colored belong to the early Middle Ages, and mainly, the burned potteries in the pink colored decorated with geometric and floral ornaments to the advanced stage of the Middle Ages.