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Bayat Castle

NKR / Aghjabedi / Boyat

Historical Introduction
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From other villages, extending in the vast plain of Mughan Bayat differs by the oldest Turkish mosque in the territory of Azerbaijan. Panah - the leader of one of the nomadic tribes for the time being built it on the prop-walls of a medieval fortress in the 40-ies of the XVIII cent. “He built a fortress in Qabirli district, which was called Bayat. He surrounded the fortress by a deep moat, and built a mosque inside the fortress. This was an outstanding event in the life of the vagabond shepherd tribes and the new fortress attracted many residents from various places.”

Leo, Selected Works, vol. 3, Book 2, Yerevan, 1973, p. 265 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 217.