Shaki tower
On the left bank of Bazarchay near Shaki village in Garakilsa district of Zangazur mahal.
On the border of Sunik.
Architecture
The ruins of the Shaki fortress, which is known to belong to Caucasian Albania, are located on the left bank of the Bazarchay near the village of Shaki in the Garakilsa (Sisiyan) district.
Shaki Castle was the main residence of the Albanian prince Sahl Ibn Sumbat in the second half of the 9th century. It played the role of an important defense and control point on the road leading to the desert in Bichanak Pass. In 837, as a result of the treachery of Sahl Ibn Sumbat, Babek was captured in the Shaki fortress and handed over to the Arabs. Shaki Castle is also the meeting place of Gizil Arslan and Nizami Ganjavi.
The Shaki fortress has preserved the name of the Saka (Shaka, Saklar) Turkic tribe that settled in Azerbaijan in the VII-V centuries BC and also proves the fact that the foundation of the fortress was laid by the Sakas.
