Tugh (village)

Tugh (Azerbaijani: Tuğ) or Togh (Armenian: Տող) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The village and the neighboring fortress of Ktish (Armenian: Քթիշ) are first mentioned in the 9th century, as the capital of the Principality of Dizak.

[3] In 854, Esayi Abu-Muse, the Prince of Dizak, resisted an Abbasid army under the command of Bugha al-Kabir at Ktish for more than a year.

The principality survived until the last prince, Yesayi Melik-Avanian, was killed by Ibrahim Khalil Khan in 1781, after a long-lasting resistance in the fortress of Ktish.

During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, in March 1988, Armenian armed militia detachments were formed to defend the village from Soviet and Azerbaijani attacks.

[6] As a result of the war, local Azerbaijani villagers were forced to flee and many settled in the Beylagan District of Azerbaijan.

The 13th-century monastery of Gtichavank
Preserved buildings of Togh's Melikian Palace , built in the early 1700s