Shahbulag Fortress

Shahbulag is an uninhabited settlement and former 18th-century fortress located in the Agdam District of Azerbaijan. According to Armenian archaeologists, the fortress was built on the site of an ancient Armenian city that existed from the 1st century BC to the 14th century AD. This city has been identified as Artsakh Tigranakert in sources. The head of the excavations, Hamlet Petrosyan, claims that stones from the ruins of the 5th-6th century Tigranakert basilica, which still survived at that time, were used to build the first fortifications in Shahbulag.