Deli Gul castle

In the village of Gul Ali, 3 kilometers southeast of the Kavar (Yeni Bayazid) district of the Goycha district

Kavar district – from 13.04.1959 Kamo, Gul Ali village – from 01.06.1940 Karmirg-yug (Red village)

Architecture

The ancient fortress in the village of Gul Ali is of great importance both in terms of clarifying the history of human settlement in these places and in terms of determining the identity of the original owners of the fortress. The remains of Band-gala, an example of Kipchak architecture, remain on the territory where it was located. It was built by Armenians. It is presented as a fortress belonging to the Van Tsardom.

The village is located at the foot of the Gul Ali mountain. It is marked on the 5-mile map of the Caucasus.
Academician B. Piotrovsky, having studied this fortress, which is in a very good condition compared to similar buildings of its time, stated with full confidence that although this fortress, built at the end of the second millennium BC, was generally included in the complex of defensive fortifications of the unified state in the Kavar basin, unlike many fortresses, it did not have the essence of a chain of fortifications, but had the character of an independent residential and defensive complex and... Most importantly, B. Piotrovsky, in addition to unequivocally noting the lack of civilization in the architectural solution of this fortress to the "Urartian buildings", draws special attention to the similarity of household items discovered in the fortress with analogous finds in the main part of the Nor-Bayazit (Kavar) fortress and in the territory of the Tsovi-nar (Kelagyran) fortress, puts forward such a scientific hypothesis that "Although the Qul Ali, Kavar and Kelaqıran fortresses were not built at the same time, there is no doubt that all three are examples of the culture of the same ethnos...".
The first official written information about Qul Ali dates back to the 16th century. In these documents, it is referred to as the "Dali Qul fortress" and is classified as one of the strategic fortresses included in the Chukhur-Saad beys of the Safavid-Azerbaijani state. On page 12 of the "Comprehensive Book of the Iravan Province", compiled after the Ottomans gained full control over the Lake Goycha basin in 1723 and approved by Ahmed Shah Mehmet Khan oglu on April 12, 1728, the village is presented with the classification of "Daligul village, also known as Garadeli", and is characterized as one of the administrative units of the Goycha district of the Iravan province.

The toponym is derived from the combination of the ethnonym "Gul" from the Kipchak Turkic tribe with the personal name "Ali" and means "village belonging to Ali from the Gul tribe." It is a structurally complex toponym.