Beylagan

Medieval Beylagan stood on the Mil plain between the Kura and Aras rivers, at the site known as Ören-Kala. It became an important town of Arran after Barda's decline. Geographers described a modest but prosperous place known for its cloth and a confection called nāṭef. Excavated pottery, glass and coins reveal a town connected to the wider trade of the region.

In the twelfth century Beylagan paid tribute to Georgia. The Mongols sacked and burned it in 1220, though survivors returned and rebuilt. At the end of the fourteenth century Timur destroyed the town and subsequently ordered it rebuilt, but the settlement was eventually abandoned. Its ruins on the plain preserve the outlines of a city that once stood among the principal centers of Arran.