Dəstəfur (also, Dastafyur, Dəstətur, Dostafur, Dastaphour, Dastaphor and Dostafyur) is a village and municipality in the Dashkasan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 572. Between 1930 and 2 April 1956, Dashkasan Region was known as the Dastafurski Rayon (Dəstəfur Rayon)[1]
Dəstəfur | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Dəstəfur | |
| Coordinates: 40°26′59″N 46°10′15″E / 40.44972°N 46.17083°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Rayon | Dashkasan |
| Population | |
| • Total | 572 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Monuments
editOn the east of the village, over the Ganja River, is a historic stone bridge thought to date from the later 13th century. A list of Azerbaijan's ancient monuments also states that the village has a bronze age burial mound (kurgan)[2] In a pastoral valley accessible only on foot, are the reasonably intact walls of a ruined 15th-century church, described in Azerbaijani texts as an Albanian Temple (Albanian refers here to Caucasian Albania)[3][4] or sometimes as Dəstəfur bazilikası[5] A 2017 TV programme filmed a visit to the church ruins.[6]
References
edit- ^ History of the Dashkasan region (in Azerbaijani)
- ^ Item 951 on the monument list is the Dəstəfur burial mound
- ^ Texts of the 4th international Nowruz Conference on Scientific Research, p168-169
- ^ Map showing location of the church site
- ^ The Dəstəfur bazilikası wiki page in Azerbaijani
- ^ Visiting the Dəstəfur church ruins - TV footage
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