Gabala Tour

Gabala is one of the most beautiful parts of Azerbaijan with a rich and ancient history. Some time in the past (for 600 years) this city (Kabala) was the capital of Caucasian Albania. Up to the present time there are the ruins of the ancient city and the main gate of Caucasian Albania. Ongoing excavations near the village Chukhur confirm that Gabala from IV – III centuries BC and up to the XVIII century was one of the major cities with developed trade and crafts.

During excavations in the ancient city were found the remains of constructions and the base of the barn presumably for food storage. There were discovered placed in special rows 33 pits of household pitchers half buried in the ground at the area of 42 sq. m.

New residues of industrial character, samples of metal, ceramics, glass, bone are identified, which creates a detailed picture of the state of separate areas of crafts and the level of life and culture of the urban population. Coins, samples of dishes from earthenware, porcelain and celadon found during the excavations report about established intensive links between Gabala in XVI-XVII centuries and cities in the number of countries in the world, including Iran and China. In the north-western part of the city for the first time were discovered valuable findings in the form of the place of the small door in the fortress wall, a door key, a system of multilateral ceramic water supply , glazed bowl (kyasa) made in the XII century. All archaeological findings are stored in Gabala Regional History Museum.