Dashtadem Fortress

Local nameՔաղենիի (Դաշտադեմի) ամրոց
LocationDashtadem, Aragatsotn

Dashtadem Fortress is a substantial fortress of the 10th to 19th centuries located at the southern outskirts of Dashtadem village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. In a cemetery 1.7 km south of Dashtadem, lies the restored 7th-century Kristapori Vank which may be viewed in the distance from the fortress.

An octagonal walled enceinte surrounds the fortress and was constructed during the beginning of the 19th century. A continuous line of eight bastions and curtain walls encloses interior fortifications; seven regular polygonal bastions and a single semi-circular or "half-moon" bastion to the north. Where fully developed bastions consist of two faces and two flanks with fire from the flanks being able to protect the exposed curtain walls and adjacent bastions, curtain walls between the semi-circular and regular bastions at Dashtadem are angled-in slightly so that the former…

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashtadem_Fortress

Address Armenia

Coordinates 40°20'18.243" N 43°51'24.837" E

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