Albanian monuments on Balatapa mountain

Monument date:
II-I c. BC
Placement /
Previous toponym:

In Narimanli vil­lage, Basar­kechar district, Goycha mahal.

Placement /
Current toponym:

The name of Narimanli vil­lage was chan­ged to Shatvan on 19.04.1991.

Classification:

Architec­ture

Current situation

Armenian ele­ments were ad­ded to some of the monuments of the rich ma­terial and cul­tural heritage of Azerbaijan's his­tory on Balatapa mountain, they were Arme­niani­zed, and the rest were destroyed and demolished.

Information:

In the 1960s, when plowing was carried out in those areas, inscribed basalt tablets with the sign of the cross, reflecting the Albanian culture of the II-I centuries BC, were found on the Balatapa mountain in the north of Narimanli village. On the bank of the Baghda river flowing at the mountain's summit (10-20 m away, ad­jacent to the ancient settlements), during the excavation work, a piece of stone, the size of a "jamish yataghi", was discovered at a depth of 1.5 m, with human bones (humerus 2 m), a large head with upside-down jaws on white teeth and 3 pottery jugs (30 cm) were found. 100 m away from there, 20 pieces of stone (height 50-70 cm) were sunk into the ground in the row called "Jarga stone". That area was pro­tected by the community as an in­violable, specially protected (historical) place. This place was close to the houses of Hasan Azim oghlu Garashov (1958-2018) and Alamdar Alasgar oghlu Abba­sov (1936-1986).

The "Armenian" specialists who came to the pla­ce from Iravan to study the mo­nument also said that the inscription does not belong to them. It shows that the monu­ment and the inscriptions rep­resent the Alba­nian-Turkish cul­tural heri­ta­ge.

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