ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Boyat 7 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Aghjabedi (District) / Boyat (Village)

Location

The village of Boyat is located 26 km west of Aghjabedi, on the road from the regional center to Aghdam.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 217.

Description

The next site of great historical interest is the vast necropolis with numerous burial mounds situated in the environs of the village Boyat (26 km west of Aghjabedi, on the highway from Aghjabedi to Aghdam). Presently this site is known under the Turkish names of Ghshaltitapa, Ghoshatapa and Gabiristanlghtapa. Colonel Weiss von Weissendorf was the first to discover the samples of glazed bricks and earthenware, which attracted the attention of the scientists, in 1883. The medieval settlement presently called Shahargah is situated not far of the necropolis.

I. Z. Archaeological Discoveries in the Caucasus, "Caucasus", 1884, N 122, p. 2-3 (in Russian).
Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. 2, Baku, 1978, p. 223 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 217.

Preliminary investigation of the Bayat antiquities and the first photographs were made by German archaeologist E. Reusler.

"Caucasus", 1903, N 134, p. 2.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 217.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Bayat