Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Zangazur ma­hal, Gafan dist­rict, in the vil­la­ge of Dovrus (Dövrüs) in the north-east of the river Ejan.

The village of Dovrus (Döv­rüs) is indicated as Tovruz in Ar­menian sour­ces.

Arts and crafts

Some of Dovrus stone inscrip­tions were dest­ro­yed by Arme­nians, and the rest were Arme­nianized by ad­ding Armenian elements.

Until 1988, Dovrus, which has an ancient history, was a village inhabited only by the Azerbaijani population. In the village of Dovrus there are remains of the ancient Albanian church dating back to the 9th century and other inscribed stone monu­ments. One of these monuments is a stone monument with inscriptions on it. After the Armenians presented the monument (belonging to the 9th century) with wri­tings on it to the Khazar tribe, they saw that it belonged to the Christians and it was prevented when they tried to hide it.

The toponym is an ethnoto­po­nym formed on the basis of the Tavris ethno­nym belonging to the Khazarian tribe of Turkic origin. A stone monument with an inscription da­ting back to the 9th century confirms that this is an Al­banian Turkish homeland.