Argush tower

About 16 kilometers south of Goycha lake in Goycha mahal, on a peak of Goyam range near the source of Argish river

Arguj, Argush Tower - "Argish", "Argishti"

Architecture

The ruins of the tower on the top near the source of the Argish river remained untouched until the deportation of 1987-1991. Unlike most of the castles in the Goycha area, Argishja was not built on the shore, but on the top, so its foundation was not washed away and this fact allows us to reveal the full details of the tower's architectural solution. This detail does not agree with the "traditions of Armenian architecture" formed on paper. Its remains are presented as an "Armenian monument".

Argishja (Argush Tower) is located about 16 kilometers south of Goycha Lake, on a peak of the Goyam range near the source of the Argish River. It is a fact confirmed even by Armenian historians that this tower, built in an oval plan in the style of ancient Turkish architecture, belongs to the second millennium BC, approximately to the 18th15th centuries BC. Referring to the fact that the tower was built on the inaccessible peak of the Goycha Basin, which is generally 2000 meters above sea level, it can be concluded that this defense complex was of great importance for the Oghuz Dynasty. In the official correspondence of 1555, Argishja is characterized as one of the administrative units of the Chukhursad Baylarbay of the Safavid Azerbaijan state. Although the name of Argush village is mentioned on the 16th page of the "Iravan province review book" prepared 5 years after the Ottomans gained full control over the Goycha lake basin in 1723, there is no information about its taxes. From these records, it is only clear that as a result of the administrative division implemented by the Ottoman state, Argishca was given to the administration of Goycha district of Irevan governorate. During the Russo-Iranian and Russo-Turkish wars of 1826-1829, the absence of Argishca's name in the lists of destroyed villages and habitable areas indicates that it was precisely as a result of these wars that Goycha was destroyed and later deliberately "dead villages whose names were forgotten" as one of the classified ancient Turkic lands is Argishje. The village known as Karvansara until 1873 was mentioned as "Agrischay" in subsequent documents, and "Ayrichay" after 1918. At first glance, this kind of confusion can be attributed to simple ignorance or a technical defect. But the ugly goal of Armenian historiography is obvious. The purpose of all these games was to lose the traces of the Argishja name, to divert attention from the Argish tower by forming an opinion that the caravanserai was not inhabited by the Argish people, but by people displaced from various villages on the banks of the Ayrichay river in the middle of the 19th century. The name of the village was not mentioned in the census in order to appropriate the historical castle, inscriptions and monuments belonging to Azerbaijanis and to reduce the number and traces of Azerbaijani settlements.

Argush Tower, one of the oldest settlements of Goycha mahal, the fact that Shah Ismayil Khatai, during his visit to Goycha, continued his journey not on a convenient route, but on the territory of this castle with difficult terrain can be evaluated as a sign of the historical importance of Argushche.