Odzaberd Fortress

The fortress of Ozaberd or Teishebaini was built in the 1st millennium BC, located in the Gegharkunik region of Armenia, on the same plateau between the present villages of Tsovinar and Artsvanist. localities: The main fence, continuing to the northeast, ensures the safety of the roads leading to the fortress: Studies have shown that the main walls of the castle and some towers have been reconstructed, in addition, there are structures of different periods inside the castle and in the surrounding settlement. Here we have given a number of measurements of the walls of apartments, where a fragment of a cyclopean-type stone wall of the pre-Urartian period and a section of the walls of an apartment of the Urartian period, lined with uncompressed brick, are clearly visible.

In addition, the main walls and the karaburgi of the fortress and especially the citadel have been rebuilt, their outer faces are lined with polished stones, and their smooth sides are facing outward. Odzaberd, which is the same Teishebaini, probably had drinking water using the waters of numerous springs flowing from the Vardenis Mountains.

Thus, the Urartian fortress Teishebaini on the southern shore of Lake Sevan was the stronghold of the Urartian kingdom, holding in its hands the surrounding local tribes, such as the city of Khaldi in the country of Velikukh: