The Geography of Ananias of Širak by Anania Shirakatsi

The cease fire line, concluded at the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, is just a few kilometers west of Barda, near Terter.

Local economy is based on the production and processing of cotton, silk, poultry and dairy products. العصر الحديثĪgriculture is the main activity in the area.

There is also the more recently built Imamzadeh Mosque, which has four minarets. The mausoleum is a cylindrical brick tower, decorated with turquoise tiles. Ĭenturies of earthquakes and, finally, the Mongol invasions destroyed much of the town's landmarks, with the exception of the fourteenth century tomb of Ahmad Zocheybana, built by architect Ahmad ibn Ayyub Nakhchivani. This may have been a factor in the decline of Barḏa in the second half of the tenth century, along with the raids and oppressions from the rulers of the neighboring regions, when the town lost ground to Beylaqan.

In 943, it was attacked once more by the Rus and sacked. In 914, the city was captured by the Rus, who occupied it for six months. The same Muslim geographers describe Barda as a flourishing town with a citadel, a mosque (the treasury of Arran was located here), a circuit wall and gates, and a Sunday bazaar that was called 'Keraki,' 'Korakī' or 'al-Kurki' (a name derived from Greek κυριακή ( kyriaki), the Lord's Day and Sunday, as the Armenian word kiraki is). Referring to events in the late eleventh century, the twelfth-century Armenian historian Matthew of Edessa described Partav as an 'Armenian city, which is also called Paytakaran and located near the vast Sea.'

The Geography of Ananias of Širak by Anania Shirakatsi