Qaçaq Nəbi Explained

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Gachaq Nabi (1854 in Ashaghi Mollu, Qubadli District – 1896) is an Azerbaijanis who once participated in the "Gachaq Movement" in Azerbaijan during the second half of the 19th century.

Life

Gachaq Nabi was born in 1854 in the village of Ashaghi Mollu of Zangezur District (now Qubadli District). According to some sources, he is of Kurdish origin, and according to others, he is Turkmen. In March 1896, when Nabi was returning from Karbala, he was the victim of an ambush prepared in advance by Russian spies in the village of Larni, which is located between the border of Türkiye and Iran.

Nabi married Hajar Khanum from Yukhari Mollu village. Along with Nabi's wife Hajar Khanum, her sister-in-law Mehri Khanum also participated in the resistance.

The father of Gachag Nabi, Ali, hires him out to a man in the village of Aşağı Mollu. The local landlord wanted to seize the peasants' land. Nabi resisted the landlord. After that, he forms a gang of villagers on the run in Nakhchivan and Zangezur districts. He took the property of the landowners and distributed it to the peasants. His wife Hajar was also a comrade in arms of Gachaq Nabi. For 20 years. On 12 March 1896, two traitors suddenly attacked Nabi and killed him.

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