Dastakerd village tombstone monuments
In Dastakerd village, Garakilsa district, Zangazur mahal.
From 02.03.1940 Garakilsa district was named - Sisian, Dastakerd village - Dastaker
Architecture
Some of the ancient gravestone monuments located in the village of Dastakerd are exhibited as Armenian monuments in museums in İrevan. Most of the monuments left on the ground were destroyed along with the graves. Several monuments remaining in the cemetery have been appropriated and displayed as Armenian monuments
Dastakerd village was an Azerbaijani village with 100 households and up to 500 people, located 21 km south of Sisian district center, 4 km from Sofulu village, and 7 km from Shikhlar village. The word dastakerd is derived from the Persian word "dastakert", which means a hereditary form of ownership over lands that were the personal property of a feudal lord in Albania during the Sassanid era. Dastakert village was one of the ancient settlements. In the old cemetery located above the village, 2-2.2 meters long chest-shaped tombstones with Albanian alphabet written on them, horse and ram sculptures also prove that this village was an ancient settlement245. 555 Azerbaijanis lived in the village in 1908 and 400 in 1914. In 1918, the Armenians expelled the Azerbaijanis with massacres. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, villagers return to their homes. 358 people lived here in 1922, 338 people in 1926, and 434 people in 1931 - only Azerbaijanis lived here. In the 1950s, Armenians were moved here due to the establishment of the copper-molybdenum combine. In 1987, there were 1,700 Azerbaijanis and Armenians, 80% of whom were Azerbaijanis. In November 1988, Azerbaijanis were deported from their historical-ethnic lands by the Armenian state. Now only Armenians live here.
