Gülüstan, Nakhchivan

Gülüstan (Armenian: Ջուղա, romanized: Jugha) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

[2] Primary sources indicate that between 1604 and 1605, around 250,000 to 300,000 Armenians were involuntarily relocated from the region, and a significant number lost their lives while making an attempt to cross the Arax River.

Wealthy Armenians from Julfa were specifically transported to the Safavid capital of Esfahan, where they were given special treatment and experienced less hardship during their migration.

[citation needed] The Armenian cemetery, the only significant vestige of the greater city of Julfa left in the village, was destroyed between 1998 and 2006 in what was characterised as an act of cultural genocide, akin to the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

The joined part of the body with the stand, also the place passing to the dome, were encircled with the carved enforcement of stalactite shape.

The space structure of the Gulustan tomb is the unexampled specimen on the basis of a square from the circle, from cubic capacity to conic and thus the artistic – technical solution of the symmetric systems pass to one another.

It is limited by the high mountain range in the north, by the Araz River in the south, and by the ancient cemetery in the west.

The settlement in the form of narrow stripe on the left bank of the Araz River is lies towards from west to east.

From here were discovered the products of the glazed and unglazed ceramic in the pink colored decorated with the ornaments of various compositions, the copper coins and other examples of the material culture.

According to the findings and grave monuments, it is assumed that the main activity period of the Cuğa belongs to the 11-17 centuries.

Medieval Gulustan tomb close to the village