Albanian monuments on Balatapa mountain

In Narimanli vil­lage, Basar­kechar district, Goycha mahal.

The name of Narimanli vil­lage was chan­ged to Shatvan on 19.04.1991.

Architec­ture

Armenian ele­ments were ad­ded to some of the monuments of the rich ma­terial and cul­tural heritage of Azerbaijan's his­tory on Balatapa mountain, they were Arme­niani­zed, and the rest were destroyed and demolished.

In the 1960s, when plowing was carried out in those areas, inscribed basalt tablets with the sign of the cross, reflecting the Albanian culture of the II-I centuries BC, were found on the Balatapa mountain in the north of Narimanli village. On the bank of the Baghda river flowing at the mountain's summit (10-20 m away, ad­jacent to the ancient settlements), during the excavation work, a piece of stone, the size of a "jamish yataghi", was discovered at a depth of 1.5 m, with human bones (humerus 2 m), a large head with upside-down jaws on white teeth and 3 pottery jugs (30 cm) were found. 100 m away from there, 20 pieces of stone (height 50-70 cm) were sunk into the ground in the row called "Jarga stone". That area was pro­tected by the community as an in­violable, specially protected (historical) place. This place was close to the houses of Hasan Azim oghlu Garashov (1958-2018) and Alamdar Alasgar oghlu Abba­sov (1936-1986).

The "Armenian" specialists who came to the pla­ce from Iravan to study the mo­nument also said that the inscription does not belong to them. It shows that the monu­ment and the inscriptions rep­resent the Alba­nian-Turkish cul­tural heri­ta­ge.