Castle in the village of Yarpizli

In the village of Yarpizli in the Basarkechar district of the Goycha district

Basarkechar district – renamed Vardenis from 11.06.1969, Yarpizli village from 25.05.1967 Lchavan (Gölkand).

Architecture

The ruins of the castle in the village of Yarpizli were still standing during the last deportation of Azerbaijanis, in 1988. Currently, it is presented as an "Armenian monument."

The castle is located in the Yeni Bayazid district of the Yerevan province, 12 km southwest of the center of the Basarkechar district, in the village of Yarpizli on the shore of Lake Goycha. The castle was built in the 5th–6th centuries on a high ground 100–150 meters north of the current location of the village of Yarpizli, and large rocks and river stones with white plaster mortar were used in the construction of the castle. At the same time, it was a fortification-castle. Since the castle was built in the style of Azerbaijani architecture, it is material evidence of at least 1500–1600 years of the history of the settlement of this land by the Oghuz Turks. The village is marked on a 5-verst map of the Caucasus.
In sources, it is mentioned as “Yarpuzlu”. In 1723, after the Ottomans gained full control over the Goycha Lake basin, the village is presented on page 16 of the “Compendium of the Iravan Province”, which was compiled after the Ottomans gained full control over the Goycha Lake basin and was approved and sealed by Ahmad Shah Mehmet Khan oglu on April 12, 1728, with the classification “Söyüdlu village, also known as Yarpızlı”. It is clear from these records that at that time the village of Yarpızlı (Söyüdlu) was included in the administrative division of the Mazra district and the annual payment to the sultan’s treasury was determined in the amount of 5230 agças.
In 1831, 121 Azerbaijanis lived in the village, in 1873 - 398, in 1886 - 465, in 1897 - 584, in 1908 - 719, in 1914 - 815, in 1916 - 771. At the end of 1918, in January 1919, the Azerbaijanis were expelled by the Armenians in massacres and the village was burned down.
In 1919, 800 people lived in Yarpizli. Under the leadership of Andronik, the Dashnaks razed the village to the ground and massacred the population, from the youngest to the oldest - without mentioning the old, women, and children. Those who survived took refuge in Azerbaijan through the mountains and valleys. Armenians who had been resettled from abroad were settled in the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia in 1920, the surviving Azerbaijanis were able to return to their villages. Along with the small number of resettled Armenians, 336 Azerbaijanis lived here in 1922, 419 in 1926, and 547 in 1931. By a special decision of the USSR Council of Ministers, the Azerbaijani population of the village was resettled to Azerbaijan in 1948–1953 and Armenians were settled in the village. Despite this, some Azerbaijanis later returned to Yarpizly. The people of Yarpiz were completely forcibly expelled for the third time in 1988. Now only Armenians live here.

The toponym was formed by adding the suffix "-lı" to the word yarpız, which is a wild plant, indicating the concept of plural. It is a phytotoponym. Structurally, it is a toponym. It was formed in the middle of the 19th century on the basis of "gışlaq". Gışlaq was named after the place called "Yarpızlı".