Dashkasan

Dashkasan (Azerbaijani: Daşkəsən, Persian: داشکسن‎‎) is a three cave complex located south-east of Soltaniyeh. Outside the caves there is a temple called Dragon Stone of Dash Kasan Caves which was built by order of Mongol king Öljaitü in the early fourteenth century. The temple was built by four Chinese craftsmen. The architecture of Dash Kasan caves looks like an incomplete rectangle.

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Coordinates: 36°19′52″N 48°51′53″E / 36.330983°N 48.864653°E / 36.330983; 48.864653 (Dashkasan complex, Zanjan, Iran)

Dashkasan, Isfahan

Dāshkasan (Persian: داشكسن‎‎, also Romanized as Dāshkesan or Dāshgesan; is a village in Gorji Rural District, in the Central District of Buin va Miandasht County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 606, in 125 families.

Dāshkasan is situated in the Zagros mountain range. It has a population of ethnic Georgians (ფერეიდნელი). People from Dāshkasan speak a Georgian dialect, along with Persian. The Georgian alphabet is also used.

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Daşkəsən

Coordinates: 40°29′41″N 46°04′38″E / 40.49472°N 46.07722°E / 40.49472; 46.07722

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.

Etymology

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.

History

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.