Goroz

Goroz was a fortress of the mountainous country of southern Artsakh, on a plateau enclosed by steep cliffs near the villages of Tumi and Togh. In the ninth century it was one of the two main strongholds of Esayi Abu-Muse, the founder of the principality of Dizak, whose seat was at Ktish; the cantons of Artsakh he ruled had earlier held out against the army of Babak Khorramdin.

The district later became the melikdom of Dizak, one of the five melikdoms of Karabakh. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century it was ruled by the Armenian Melik-Avanian family, whose seat was at Togh beside Ktish. Esayi Melik-Avanian resisted in the fortress of Ktish until Ibrahim Khalil Khan killed him in 1781.