Dəstəfur (also, Dastafyur, Dəstətur, Dostafur, Dastaphour, Dastaphor and Dostafyur) is a village and municipality in the
Dashkasan Rayon
Dashkasan District ( az, Daşkəsən rayonu) is one of the 66 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan, districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the Ganja-Dashkasan Economic Region. The district borders the d ...
of
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
. It has a population of 572. Between 1930 and 2 April 1956, Dashkasan Region was known as the ''Dastafurski Rayon'' (Dəstəfur Rayon)
Monuments
On 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'')
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
Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus: mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are ''Aghwank'' and ''Aluank'', among ...
) or sometimes as Dəstəfur bazilikası
A 2017 TV programme filmed a visit to the church ruins.
Visiting the Dəstəfur church ruins - TV footage
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References
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Populated places in Dashkasan District
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