ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Dastapor 8 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Dashkesan (District) / Dastapor (Village)

Location

The village is situated on the south-facing slope of a gorge lying on the left bank of the Dastapor, i.e. the left tributary of the river Gandzak, 12 kilometres south-west of the district centre, at an altitude of 1,250 to 1,330 metres above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 143.

Historical Introduction

As attested by two manuscripts created by a clergyman named Sargis, it was called Dastapyur in the second half of the 17th century. One of them is a Gospel written between 1671 and 1673 for a certain Yearamish, and the other a Mashtots dating from 1673 to 1674.

A Catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts of the Matenadaran after Mashtots, vol. 2, Yerevan, 1970, manuscript No. 3576, 6476, p. 385.
Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 264.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 143, 145.

Monuments

Dastapor retains a 17th-century spacious church whose large dimensions indicate that it used to serve a village with a population between at least 2,000 and 3,000. The existence of another smaller church and several cemeteries extending not far from each other (they predominantly comprise undressed tombstones) attests that it was truly a populous village.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 145.

Population
18 c․

Stripped of its Armenian inhabitants in the mid-18th century, Dastapor remained deserted for about a century. In the second half of the 19th century, its site provided an encampment for a small number of cattle-breeding Turks.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 145-146.

Monuments
1899 y․

In 1899 German archaeologist E. Resler conducted research into a great number of tumuli found in the territory of Dastapor: he revealed that they dated back to the period between the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Resler, E. Archaeological Research in Transcaucasia. In: “Kavkaz,” Tiflis, 1903, N 179, p. 2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 146.

Type Photo
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Dastapyur	17 c․

The available statistical data on their number represent the following picture:

Dates	Turkish Houses	Turks (Male)	Turks (Female)	Total (Turks)	Notes	Source
1886	223	720	651	1371		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 80-81. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 146.
1908				1557		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 248. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 146.
1914				457		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 116. In: Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 146.