[6] The county capital was initially in Uchkovakh, later being moved to Agdash, which was considered the largest cotton-trading center in the lowlands of Transcaucasia.

The area was called Aresh (Azerbaijani: Ərəş) in the Middle Ages and formed a part of Shirvan Baylarbaylik which was gradually made significantly weaker after repeated Ottoman-Safavid conflicts on its territory, eventually being subdued into the Shaki Khanate in the 1750s.

The Aresh uezd was formally abolished by Soviet authorities in 1929, and superseded by the Agdash Rayon, which was established in its place in 1930.

[7] The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Aresh uezd in 1912 were as follows:[8] The population was engaged primarily in agricultural farming and gardening.

The plurality of the population indicated Tatar[c] to be their mother tongue, with significant Armenian and Kyurin (Lezgian) speaking minorities.