11. The Kura Araxes culture would later display " a precocious metallurgical development, which strongly influenced surrounding regions ". 12. Beyazid agreed to this idea, and by May 1497 Ahmad Bey faced Rustam near Araxes and defeated him. 13. This stage of the Early Bronze Age seems to represent the final stage of the Kura-Araxes culture. 14. It starts near sources of the Araxes river and stretches from the south bank as far west as Mount Ararat. 15. They burned the Markara Bridge which spanned the Araxes River and retreated to the northern bank on November 13, 1920. 16. Its pottery makes it a type site of the Kura-Araxes or Early Transcaucasian Period and the Shengavitian culture area. 17. "' Aghuank "'( Old Armenian : region between the Kur and Araxes rivers as part of Armenia. 18. The monastery offers a unique panoramic view to the southern part of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, up to the River Araxes . 19. Greek, Roman and Armenian authors provide the names of the some peoples who inhabited the lands between the Kur and Araxes rivers: 20. Kaspk, later Paytakaran ) lying along the right bank of the Araxes river and corresponding to the northeastern part of Iranian Azerbaijan ".