Stone inscriptions in Akhsakhtovuz village

Near Kavar (Yeni Bayazid) district of Goycha mahal In the village of Akhsakhtovuz

Kavar region since 13.04.1959 - Kamo, Gavar since 04.12.1995

Decorative applied art

Until the deportation of 1987-1991, the ruins of this village and the inscription remained in the area. It was destroyed by Armenians in later times.

It bordered the village of Atdash (Altundash) on the south branch of Ayrichay, 15-18 kilometers south of the present city of Kamo, in the west of Goycha Lake. Remains of stone inscriptions were found on a hillside near the village. Various animal drawings and inscriptions on the rock stones on the slope indicate that the settlement here belongs to the ancient period. Inscriptions and images on stone inscriptions from the Oghuz period were found in many areas of historical lands inhabited by Azerbaijanis. The inscriptions give grounds for speculations about the at least 1,500-year history of the settlement of these places by the Oghuz Turks. The village was first reported in the travel notes of the 18th century author Simon Iravanli. The name of Aksakhtovuz village was ranked 22nd in the list compiled by I. Chopin of 67 out of 108 villages destroyed by Armenian-Russian units in Goycha district during the wars of 1826-1829.  In this list, Aksakhtovuz is classified as a village close to Atdash village, which also agrees with the approximate geographical location in the records of S.Iravanli. However, the name of the village given to the administration of the newly created Armenian province is not in the list compiled by Chopin in 1831 and in the official documents of the following periods. Since it was the homeland of Azerbaijanis, the village was canceled in the list by Armenians at the beginning of the 19th century.

Akhsakhtovuz village was a village with an ancient history and inhabited only by the Azerbaijani population. A 1,500-year-old stone inscription from the Oghuz Turks period confirms that this is an Albanian Turk homeland.