Dəstəfur

Dəstəfur
Dəstəfur
Municipality
	Dəstəfur
	Coordinates: 40°26′59″N 46°10′15″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Dashkasan
Population
• Total	572
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

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]

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)[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

Dəstəfur at GEOnet Names Server

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[1] History of the Dashkasan region (in Azerbaijani)

[2] Item 951 on the monument list is the Dəstəfur burial mound

[3] Texts of the 4th international Nowruz Conference on Scientific Research, p168-169

[4] Map showing location of the church site

[5] The Dəstəfur bazilikası wiki page in Azerbaijani

[6] Visiting the Dəstəfur church ruins - TV footage