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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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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- 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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