Fortification walls in Aghparakh village

13-14 kilometers south-west of Kavar district, in the village of Aghparakh at the foot of the Goyam rang

Kavar region since 13.04.1959 – Kamo, since 04.12.1995 Gavar

Architecture

The remains of the foundation of the fortification walls surrounding the village ruins existed until the deportations of 1987-1991.

The name of this settlement, whose ruins remained untouched until the deportations of 1987-1991, 13-14 kilometers southwest of Kavar village (now Kavar city), at the foot of the Goyam range, is found for the first time in official documents of the 16th century, and it is clear from this document that Aghparakh is one of the Goyche villages of the Chukhursad beylarbey of the Safavid Azerbaijan state. Attributing the foundation remains of the fortifycation walls surrounding those ruins to the VII-VIII centuries by Armenian scientists and the establishment of this fact by the Committee for the Protection and Restoration of Historical Monuments of Armenia gives grounds for speculations about the at least 1,500 year history of the settlement of Aghparakh village by the Oghuz Turks. Despite all this, Armenian historians persistently deny the existence of a village called Aghparakh in Goycha territory. But on page 112 of the "Iravan Province Review Book" compiled in 1728, there are notes that Aghparakh village was assigned to a person named Saleh Abdulla oghlu as a timar, that is, as a tax payer covering the expenses of the authorized representative of the state. Armenian sources testify to the existence of a Turkish settlement called Aghparakh: XVIII century author S. Iravanli in his notes on his visit to the Goycha Basin also mentions the village of Aghparakh and shows that there are about 40 historically significant monuments in this mountain village bordering the Goychali capital.

During the wars of 1826-1829, 67 of the 108 villages destroyed by the Armenian Russian military units in Goycha. Agparakh's name is not included in the list compiled by I.Chopin. Although the survivors of the massacre of 1918-1919 were not given the opportunity to restore their villages, they took shelter in Delikdash and lived compactly there, and even after Delikdash was completely cleansed of Turks and turned into "Tsakkar", the Armenians themselves called the neighborhood in the southern part of Delikdash and classified as "Aghparakhlılar neighborhood".