Bala Mazra village is located 9 kilometers north of Basarkechar city, on the southeastern shore of Lake Goycha, in the Mazra plain, at an altitude of 1930 meters above sea level.
Jar burials, various household items, and ornaments found during the construction of a new school in the northern part of the village in the mid-1960s, as well as during agricultural work carried out near this area in the early 1970s, indicate that the first Turkic tribes settled in Bala Mazra at the beginning of the first millennium AD.
Armenian archaeologists who conducted archaeological excavations in Bala Mazra village in 1938 also acknowledged that the Albanian temple in this area dates back to the 7th-8th centuries, and the stone inscriptions in the surrounding cemetery belong to the 6th-7th centuries AD and are related to Turkic culture.
In the early 1970s, during joint excavations carried out by employees of the Institutes of Archaeology of the Academies of Sciences of Azerbaijan and Armenia in a kurgan on the right bank of the Mazra River, between the villages of Bala Mazra and Boyuk Mazra, it was confirmed that the tomb discovered there belonged to one of the Albanian princes. This finding confirmed the fact that the Goycha area, as well as the Mazra plain, was one of the important regions of Caucasian Albania.
According to official data, in 1831, the population of Bala Mazra, consisting entirely of Turks, was 272 people. In 1873, 675 people lived in 83 houses in the village. In 1897, this figure was 1200, in 1908 it was 1658, and in 1914 it was 1731 people. The rapid increase in population in Bala Mazra at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries was partly due to natural growth, and partly due to the migration of people from other regions to the village due to its favorable geographical conditions. The migrants mainly came from the western shores of Lake Goycha and the Shamshaddil area during the settlement of Armenians in the surrounding districts.
Bala Mazra village secondary school named after Molla Panah Vagif was considered one of the most advanced schools in the Goycha district, Basarkechar region.
