Dashkasan Explained

Dashkasan (Azerbaijani: Daşkəsən, Persian: داشکسن) is a three cave complex located south-east of Soltaniyeh.[1] Outside the caves there is a temple called Dragon Stone of Dash Kasan Caves which was built by order of Mongol king Öljaitü in the early fourteenth century. The temple was built by four Chinese craftsmen. The architecture of Dash Kasan caves looks like an incomplete rectangle.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dash Kasan Caves . aftab.ir . 3 November 2008 . 18 February 2013 . https://archive.today/20130218060329/http://aftab.ir/english/iran/zh08.php . dead .
  2. Web site: Dash Kasan Caves . tebyan-zn.ir . 21 November 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726232048/http://www.tebyan-zn.ir/papers/subpapers.aspx?id=31&category=RF . 26 July 2011 .

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