Daşkəsən
| Daşkəsən | ||
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 Daşkəsən
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| Coordinates: 40°29′41″N 46°04′38″E / 40.49472°N 46.07722°E | ||
| Country |
 Azerbaijan
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| Rayon | Dashkasan | |
| Elevation | 1,630 m (5,350 ft) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 11,262 | |
| Time zone | AZT (UTC+4) | |
| • Summer (DST) | AZT (UTC+5) | |
| Area code(s) | +994 216 | |
Coordinates: 40°29′41″N 46°04′38″E / 40.49472°N 46.07722°E
Daşkəsən, also known as Dashkasan, is a city and municipality in and the capital of the Dashkasan Rayon of modern Azerbaijan. It has a population of 10 801. The municipality consists of the city of Daşkəsən and the village of Alunitdağ.
The city's name means Rock Cutter in Azerbaijani, in which Azerbaijani daş means stone and kəsən is rooted in the verb kəsmək, "to cut", thus referring to a place where rocks have been hacked.
The settlement existed from the early Middle Ages as an Armenian town known as Karhat. The mountains of Daşkəsən were used as pastures for a long time. The most beautiful pastures of the South Caucasus are located here and in Khoshbulag. Khoshbulag was inhabited by the primitive people in the Stone Age whose main engagement was hunting. In the 3rd century B.C. people engaged in animal breeding rose to Khoshbulag pastures. The tradition is followed up today. Daşkəsən summer pastures are 2000 m high from sea level. Different animal-breeding tribes settled here and built Cyclops-like small towers to protect themselves from attacks. Since that period Daşkəsən turned to the place of settlement.
Tumuli type burying monuments found in the archaeological digs carried out in 1959-1960 in the places of ancient settlement in Daşkəsən show that people used this area as summer pastures and there was only one way to those pastures in summer- north-east, the valley of the river Kur.
The 4th-century Targmanchats Monastery is also just north of Daşkəsən.
The Middle Ages in Daşkəsən are characterized with the development of cultural work.
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