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
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Dashkasan
Population [citation needed]
• Total	572
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

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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