Fortress "Gavazan"
Armenia /
Tavush /
Sarigyukh /
World
/ Armenia
/ Tavush
/ Sarigyukh
World / Azerbaijan
fortress, interesting place
The medieval Armenian fortress on the slopes of Mount Gavazan to the west of nowday's Gazakh district of Azerbaijan, to the north-west of the village Abbasbeyli. Before our time the remains of the fortress walls. "Gavazan" in Armenian language means "Pikestaff" as mount Gavazan is standing tall and resemples a pikestaff. Since the 1936 this lands were attached to Azerbaijani SSR by separation from Armenian SSR, according to claim of "brotherly Turkey" to USSR. In Soviet Azerbaijan this fortress and mount called Goyazan to liken this Armenian toponym under Turkic transcription.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°5'19"N 45°11'5"E
- Georgia-Azerbayjan state border 30 km
- gorge Chamdzvrala 52 km
- Jogiani 106 km
- Kirkitiani 108 km
- Kopale 114 km
- Gurjikozmalar 115 km
- Lopota Gorge 127 km
- Towers and scattered settlements 154 km
- Yukhary Bash 168 km
- Shalbuzdag 218 km
- Göyəzən mount 0.1 km
- Qizilhajili Reservoir 1.8 km
- Uchgyul mt. 2.5 km
- Qizilhajili 3.1 km
- Azerbaijani controlled part of Ijevan district, Tavush, Armenia 4.7 km
- Qazakh rayon 8.2 km
- Aghstafa Reservoir Lake 8.6 km
- Noyemberyan disctrict 17 km
- Ijevan district 29 km
- Armenia - Azerbaijan line of contact 65 km