Bughdayitapa tower

In the village of Bughatapasi (Bughdayitapa) on the slope at the beginning of the mountain range, about 810 kilometers south of the coast, northwest of Goycha Lake

Goycha Lake Sevan

Architecture

Until the deportation that took place in 1987-1991, the ruins of the ancient tower remained in the area.

In 1930, Armenian archaeologists discovered the remains of the foundation of an ancient fortress in this area, 3-4 km southwest of Aghzibir, and attributed it to the III-II centuries BC. The 18th century author Simon Irevanli, in his notes on the historical cultural monuments in the Goycha basin, talks about the Bughdayitapa fortress located in the area near the Ajdag height in the Goyam range, and says that from here the villages of Kamandbulag and Dalican look like a handful. Therefore, the traces of Bughatapasi village should be looked for right here, in the northwest of Goycha Lake, on the slope at the beginning of the mountain range, about 8-10 kilometers south of the coast, and that area coincides with the coordinates of the ruins of the ancient fortress discovered by Armenian archaeologists. In the notes made on the 12th page of the "Irevan province overview book" stored in the Prime Minister's Archive of Turkey, this village is referred to as "Bughdayitapa". Is presented and it is shown that the annual tax of this village, which is included in the administrative division of Goycha district, to the sultan's treasury is determined in the amount of 2,110 akhchas. Paying attention to the sequence of toponyms in this document and the geographical coordinates of existing settlements whose names are included in those lists, it is concluded that Bughatapa borders with the villages of Kamandbulag (Aghzibir) and Dalican (this village, whose original name was Dali Bejan, was later erased from the earth).

In Armenian sources, Bughatapa-Shirak is the name of a peak of the mountain range. The name of the mountain is related to the presence of bull deer there in the past. I. Chopin compiled a list of 67 out of 108 villages destroyed during the Russia-Iran, Turkey-Russia wars that took place in 1826-1829, and the name of Bughatapasi village was included in the first row of this list. The fact that the name of Bughatapa is not found in the list compiled in 1831 and in the documents of subsequent periods reinforces the fact that the village population was subjected to mass genocide and deportation.