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Tigranakert Fortress

Azerbaijan

Tigranakert Fortress in Azerbaijan
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Tigranakert Fortress ranks #8,999 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #45 of the 45 mapped in Azerbaijan. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Ganja, 81 km away. See how Azerbaijan compares in the castle statistics.

Tigranakert Fortress is the fortress of one of the four cities named Tigranakert built in Greater Armenia by King Tigranes the Great; it stands by the Khachinchay river on a hill near the village of Kyzyl Kengerli in the Agdam district.

Machine-translated from “Тигранакерт (крепость)” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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