Tower in Talish village
It is located in Talish village, Ashtarak district, Echmiadzin uezd.
Talish village was named Aruch from 11.11.1970.
Architecture
The ruins of the 13th-14th historical ancient century castle still remain today.
Talish village of Ashtarek district is a village rich in material and cultural monuments that are the heritage of ancient Armenian-Turkish and various Turkish tribes since the 7th century. The palace, temple and a part of the residence in the village are surrounded by castle walls. The thick fortress walls built in the 13th-14th centuries were able to withstand wars and attacks for many centuries. The village population was forcibly relocated in the 1940s and 1950s, Armenians brought from Iran and Turkey (370 people in 43 families) were settled in the village.
The village of Talish, where the castle is located, was the homeland of the Turkic-Oghuz tribes, only Azerbaijanis lived in the village. The castle was built for defense purposes. The toponym Gizilbash is an ethnotoponym based on the Talish ethnonym from the Turkic tribe. It is a simple toponym in structure.