Bilasuvar

Bilasuvar lies on the Mughan plain, a low-lying country between the Aras and the Caspian. The Persian geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi attributed the foundation of the medieval town to a tenth-century Buyid emir named Pilasuvar. By the fourteenth century it had declined amid local conflicts. Nearby mounds and the remains of fortified settlements testify to a longer history of habitation on the plain, where routes crossed the open country between the Iranian plateau and the Caucasus.