Western Azerbaijan Heritage

It is located in the village of Chikdamal in Hamamli (Spi­tak) district of Alexandropol uezd of Iravan governorate.

The name of Chikdamal vil­lage was chan­ged to Are­ves­hog on 25.01.1978.

Architec­ture

The remains of the tower walls dating back to the 1st millen­nium BC re­main in the vil­lage of Chikda­mal.

A tower in the village of Chikdamal in the modern Hamamli (Spitak) district of Alexandropol uezd of Iravan gover­norate. In the village there are remains of the tower walls dating back to the 1st millennium BC. Armenians were moved here from Maku governorate of Iran in 1828-1829. Apart from Armenians, 7 Azerbaijanis lived here in 1897. They were forced out of the village at the be­ginning of the 20th century. Armenians live there now. It is a toponym with a complex structure based on relief. Arm. SSR AS RH was renamed as Areveshog by the decree of January 25, 1978344.

The toponym is formed from the combination of words chik, which means "border", "term" in Tur­kish, and the word dam, which means "house, buil­ding", "one or two sides open, covered place, building", "sta­ke, digging" in Azerbaijani. The "al" at the end is a topo­for­mant. The word "Chak" is also used in the sense of "nar­row val­ley" and means "house, settle­ment, vil­lage lo­ca­ted on the bor­der". The infor­ma­tion shows that the tower is the an­cient cul­tural he­ritage of Azer­baijan.