BAYBURT

It is located in the Millidar district of Vedibasar, northeast of the village of Boyuk Vedi, the center of Vedi district, 24 km southeast of Gamarli (from 09.04.1945­- Artashat), a village on the bank of the Davagezu river (the Mill tributary of the Gemi river).

Only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village.

In 1832 there were 96 Azerbaijanis (54 men, 42 women) in 19 families, in 1873 - 143 (82 men, 61 women) in 21 families, in 1886 -184 (102 men, 82 women) in 27 families, in 1897 - 224, in 1914 - 284.

During the attack of the Armenian Dashnaks on the Millideren ­district in May 1918, village of the Bayburt was brutally destroyed, and the survivors along with the population of­ Millikeren temporarily took refuge in the lowland villages of Vedibasar district.

The village ­revived only after the establishment of Soviet power in the region. Thus, in 1922 only 22 refugees of the village were able to return to their native village, in 1926 their number reached 164, and in 1931 - 140.

In 1950, most of the population of the village was forcibly relocated to the village of Arabojagi in the Agdash district of Azerbaijan. Unable to withstand the hot climatic conditions of this place, the Bayburt people were forced to move a year later to the village of Katal-Parag in Barda district.

When the population of the village was deported in 1952, 5-6 families out of 52 in the village refused to resettle and remained in the village forever, continuing to live there until 1988. By the beginning of the 1988 events, there were about 150 Azerbaijani residents (30-40 houses) in the village. In the same year they were expelled from their native land and moved to their ­relatives in the Barda district.

One of the famous centers of Vedibasar district was the Arab Ojag, located in the village of Bayburt. It was owned by­ Seyyid Abdullah in the last century, and after his death his son Seyyid Abbas and then his son Seyyid Gasham owned it.

During the genocide of Western Azerbaijanis in 1988, Seyid Gasham also moved to the village of Katalparag, Barda district, where ­he died. The stone brought from Ojag in Bayburte to the village of Katalparag is still kept in the house of the owner of Ojag, and Ojag continues its activities in the village of Katalparag to this day. After Seyyid Gasham, his son Seyyid Abbas owned the Ojag.