Bağın, also spelt Baghin[1] and Paghin, and called Dedebağ in Turkish, is a hamlet to Akdüven and historical town in what is now Mazgirt District, Turkey.
[2]: 139 [3] Its remains are located by the bank of the Peri Su river, downstream from Kiğı and northwest of Karakoçan, in a flat area surrounded by hills.
[2]: 126 The present-day hamlet consists of a handful of houses and is tucked between the riverbank and a large rocky outcropping that juts up from the surrounding flat land.
[2]: 134 Ancient Bağın was the largest of several small fortresses on the road connecting the Urartian heartland around Lake Van with the upper basin of the Murat Su.
[2]: 146 Its prosperity was helped by its distance from major conflict zones, allowing agriculture and animal husbandry to carry on unimpeded.