Agjagala

In the village of Yukhari Agjagala, Talin district, Talin mahal (part of the fortress's extended fortification walls fall into the village of Agjagala, Uchkilsa district)

Talin district – Talin, Yukhari Agjagala village was renamed Verin Bazmaberd (“Upper multi-colored, gray-colored castle”) on November 12, 1946.

Architecture

The ruins of the castle still remain in the area of ​​the village of Yukhari Agjagala. Most of it was demolished by the Armenians and used for house construction. The remains of the wall, 1-1.5 meters high, are presented as an "Armenian monument".

Agjagala Fortress is located in the village of Yukhari Agjagala on the southwestern side of the Alagöz Mountain, 11 km east of the center of the current Talin district, in the Echmiadzin district of Yerevan province. The villages of Agjagala, Yukhari Agjagala and Aşağı Agjagala, located in the vicinity of the fortress, are named after the fortress. Part of the fortress's fortification walls is also close to the territory of these villages. The village considered to be the territory of the fortress is Yukhari Agjagala.
Large stones were used in the construction of the fortress. The name of the toponym Agjagala is first mentioned in the form of "Agjagala Surmeli" in the epic "Kitabi-Dede Gorgud". The fortress was built on a gray steppe land. In 1831, 70 people lived in the village, in 1873, 354 in 1886, 405 in 1897, 306 in 1904, 406 in 1914, 500 in 1916, and 308 in January 1918. In February 1918, Azerbaijanis who were subjected to Armenian aggression were deported through massacres, and Armenians who were resettled from the villages of Aghbin, Dashdadem, Dzaghak, and Hatink in the Sasun province of Turkey and the Mush and Mosul provinces of Iran in 1915-1918 were settled in the village. As it turns out, Armenians were resettled in the village in 1918. Armenian sources falsify historical facts, showing that Armenians lived in the village in 1831 and 1897, and presenting Azerbaijanis as Armenians.

The toponym was formed by combining the word "yuxari" (high), which denotes a distinctive feature in Azerbaijani toponymy, with the word "agca" (meaning "white, brown steppe, land") in Turkish and the word "qala" (fortress), and it means "a residential area next to a castle built on brown soil." It is a toponym with a complex structure, formed on the basis of the relief. It is clear from the toponym that Agjagala was a small, low, not very high castle. Agjagala means "a castle built of whitish colored stone."