ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Touz Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Touz (District) / Touz (City)

Location

The city is situated on Ghazakh-Gandzak Highway and the railroad of the same name extending parallel with it, 24 kilometres south-east of Ghazakh, at an altitude of 430 to 455 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 547.

Historical Introduction

The present-day administrative centre of the district of the same name, Touz used to be a railway station before 1935. Later it turned into a township and preserved that status until 1947, when it grew into a city.