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Gharakyopaktapa Hill

NKR / Fizuli / Fizuli

Historical Introduction
1959 y․

The administrative centre renamed, since 1959 to Fizuli is especially famous for the hill (altitude about 50 m), which is situated in the northern edge of the town. The Turks called it Gharakyopak-Tapa.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 224.

Description
20 c․

The hill is flat topped and entirely covered by fragments of ceramics. Although this site confined the attention of the archaeologists since the beginning of the XX cent., systematical excavations here were started only in 1964. The material discovered in this site dates from the IV-III Mil. BC, and is identical to the materials found in the numerous sites of the Armenian Highland.

Ivanovski, Along Transcaucasia, "Materials Archaelogy of Caucasus" VI, Moscow, 1911 (in Russian).
G. S. Ismailov, Gharakyopak-Tapa — the Ancient Monument of the Material Culture of Azerbaijan, "Bulletin of the AS of AzSSR, 1969, N 1, "Elm ve Hayat", Baku, 1988. N 2, p. 20-21.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 224.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative