Azerbaijan
Fortress of Goyazan ranks #7,816 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #40 of the 45 mapped in Azerbaijan. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tbilisi, 78 km away. See how Azerbaijan compares in the castle statistics.
Goyazan (Azerbaijani: Göyəzən, Geyazan); (also Gavarzin, Gevrazin, Kavazin, Kozin) or Gavazan (Armenian: Գավազան) is a medieval Armenian fortress on the slopes of Mount Göyəzən, 15 km west of the town of Qazax (present-day Azerbaijan) and 1 km north-west of the village of Abbasbeyli, 1.5 km from the Voskepar River. The remains of the fortress walls and of a small settlement inside the fortress have survived to the present day.
Machine-translated from “Гейазан (крепость)” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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