Dəstəfur
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)
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) or sometimes as Dəstəfur bazilikası A 2017 TV programme filmed a visit to the church ruins.
References
- ^ 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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