Togh
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Tuğ / Togh Տող |
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 Tuğ / Togh
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| Coordinates: 39°35′06″N 46°57′55″E / 39.58500°N 46.96528°E | |
| Country | De jure AzerbaijanDe facto  Nagorno-Karabakh
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Rayon Province |
Khojavend Hadrut Province |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 679 |
| Time zone | GMT +4 (UTC+4) |
Coordinates: 39°35′06″N 46°57′55″E / 39.58500°N 46.96528°E
Tuğ (Armenian: Տող Togh and Tog) is a village in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan and Hadrut Province of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Togh and the neighbouring fortress of Ktishberd, are first mentioned in the 9th century, as the capital of the Principality of Dizak. Here in 854, Esayi Abu-Muse, the Prince of Dizak, defeated an 200,000 strong Arabian army under the command of Bugha al-Kabir.
In 1737, Prince Melik Yehan built a palace here. The principality would go on to survive until the last prince, Esayi Melik-Avanian, was killed by Ibrahim Khalil Khan in 1781, after a long-lasting resistance in the fortress of Ktishberd. Togh was a part of the Karabakh Khanate until 1822 when it was annexed by Russia and became part of the Elisabethpol Governorate.
In 1903 a hospital was built and three years later a village school was opened which today functions as a middle school. A new school was built in 1978, which was renovated for the first time in 2008 by the Armenia Fund There is also a house of culture, a movie theater and a library.
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