Gravestones in the village of Argishje

In the village of Argishche, Kavar district, Goycha district

Kavar district, since 13.04.1959 Kamo

Architecture

Many of the tombstones and monuments from the Albanian and Oghuz Turkic eras were destroyed, while some remained in the ancient village until the deportation of Azerbaijanis in 1987–1991.

The only cemetery in Argishche contained numerous gravestones belonging to Albanians and Oghuz graves carved from 2-3 meter high rock stones with patterns and impressions on them. The existence of gravestones, which preserve the traces of both the Oghuz cult and Albanian and Islamic cultures, is material evidence confirming that the same ethnos lived here for 3000 years.
In official correspondence dating back to 1555, Argishche is characterized as one of the administrative units of the Chukhur-Saad beylerbey of the Safavid-Azerbaijani state. The name of the village of Argush is mentioned on page 16 of the "Compendium of the Iravan Province", prepared 5 years after the Ottomans gained full control over the Lake Goycha basin in 1723. The absence of the name of Argush in the lists of both destroyed villages and inhabited settlements during the Iran-Russia and Russia-Turkey wars of 1826–1829 indicates that Argush was one of the ancient Turkish lands that was destroyed in Goycha as a result of these wars and later deliberately classified as "dead villages whose names have been forgotten".
But unfortunately, as in all other similar cases, the traces of the tragedies experienced by this ancient Turkic land have not found their reflection in Azerbaijani historiography. Armenian historiography has rendered "unparalleled" services in the direction of erasing this name from history in general. The population of the destroyed village of Argishche moved to the village of Karvansara in the middle of the 19th century and built a new neighborhood there called "Ergishcheliler neighborhood" and lived there.

As a result of the administrative division implemented by the Ottomans, the village of Argishchi was given to the administration of the Goycha district of the Iravan province.