Tower in Talish village

It is located in Talish village, Ashtarak dist­rict, Echmi­ad­zin uezd. 

Talish village was named Aruch from 11.11.1970.

Architec­ture

The ruins of the 13th-14th his­torical ancient cen­tury castle still remain to­day.

Talish village of Ashtarek district is a village rich in material and cultural mo­numents that are the heritage of ancient Armenian-Turkish and various Turkish tribes since the 7th century. The palace, temple and a part of the residence in the village are surrounded by castle walls. The thick fortress walls built in the 13th-14th centuries were able to withstand wars and attacks for many centuries. The village population was forcibly relocated in the 1940s and 1950s, Armenians brought from Iran and Turkey (370 people in 43 families) were settled in the village.

The village of Talish, where the castle is lo­cated, was the homeland of the Turkic-Oghuz tribes, only Azer­baijanis lived in the village. The castle was built for defense pur­poses. The to­po­nym Gizil­bash is an ethno­­­toponym based on the Talish ethno­nym from the Turkic tribe. It is a simple to­po­nym in struc­ture.