Daşbulaq
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Astghashen () or Dashbulag (; ) is a village in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village is famous for its unique star-shaped stones, which the village derives its name from. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in AZ, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 65 inbound references to Daşbulaq, and connects out to Badara, Fərrux and Azerbaijan.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Khojaly District.
Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Astghashen / Dashbulag
- Settlement.native_name
- Աստղաշեն / Daşbulaq
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Գյուղի համայնապատկեր.jpg
- Settlement.image_size
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan#Karabakh
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Khojaly
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 507
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 772
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Khojaly District
- Elevation
- 772
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Image
- Dashbulag village in Khojaly district, September 2025.jpg
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- Commons category
- Daşbulaq (Xocalı)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Astghashen () or Dashbulag (; ) is a village in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village is famous for its unique star-shaped stones, which the village derives its name from. Until 2023 it was controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population until the expulsion of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan following the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.
== Toponymy == The village was historically known as Karaghbyur (). The name Astghashen means "village of stars", with the word Astgh () meaning "star" in Armenian, referring to the famous star-shaped fossils of the village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daşbulaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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