Dəstə
Sign in to saveDəstə (also, Deste, Dasta and Dastamal) is a village and the most populous municipality, after the capital Ordubad, in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 12 km in the south-east from the district center, on the left bank of the Aras river. People of the village is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, farming. There are two secondary school, two library, club, communication branch, kindergarten and hospital in the village. It has a population of 4,313.
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Place details
- Locality
- Dəstə
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 4,282
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Dəstə
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous republic
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nakhchivan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ordubad
- Settlement.population_total
- 4313
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 696
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Dəstə (also, Deste, Dasta and Dastamal) is a village and the most populous municipality, after the capital Ordubad, in the Ordubad District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 12 km in the south-east from the district center, on the left bank of the Aras river. People of the village is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, farming. There are two secondary school, two library, club, communication branch, kindergarten and hospital in the village. It has a population of 4,313.
==History== During the period of late antiquity, Dəstə, known by the Armenian name of Dasta (Դաստա; also, Dastak, Դաստակ), was an Armenian-populated village in the Kingdom of Armenia and was administratively a part of the province of Vaspurakan's district of Goght'n. In later centuries, its Armenian population emigrated and settled in nearby settlements, especially Agulis and Shusha.
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