It was located on the right bank of the Araxes (Aras), roughly corresponding to the northeastern part of Iran's historic Azerbaijan region.
[1] Attested as "Bagarvan" or "Bajarvan" in Arabic and Persian, this town is identified with the city of Göytəpə, Jalilabad, within the contemporary Azerbaijan Republic.
[1] However Armenians and the local Iranian Talysh still refer to it as the Bagaru river.
[1] Until the 17th century, the district of Bagavan was still referred to as "Bejirvan".
[1] The name "Atshi" probably derives from Middle Persian atash ("fire"), which, according to Robert H. Hewsen (citing Suren Yeremian), implies that the town "may once have been a center of Zoroastrian worship".