[1] Farhad Pasha, who headed the Turkish army in the Caucasus, went to Ganja, controlled by the Safavids, by the order of Sultan Murad III.

[2] Ganja was divided into four parts by the fortress in the 16th century: the outer city, Shahristan, Ichgala and Naringala.

[3] In 1868, after Ganja became the regional center of the Caucasus, a new master plan for the city was prepared by architect Ignati Kshishtalovic.

After the master plan was approved in 1873 by Alexander II, the walls of the fortress were demolished and European-styled neighborhoods were built.

In the construction of the fortress, clay-mud, cobblestones and baked red bricks – traditional Ganja architecture – were used.