Dashtadem, Aragatsotn

Dashtadem (Armenian: Դաշտադեմ) is a village in the Talin Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

[2] The name Dashtadem is composed of the Armenian words dasht 'field' and dem 'facing, in front of', thus literally meaning 'facing the field'.

Some of its inhabitants are descended from refugees from different parts of Western (Ottoman) Armenia, such as Mush, Alashkert (Eleşkirt) and Bulanık.

The fortress keep has an Arabic dedicatory inscription of 1174, written in Kufic script attributing the structure to Sultan ibn Mahmud (Shahanshah), one of the Shaddadids.

Past the village to the north just east of the road to Talin, and a few hundred meters before the electric substation (south), are the ruins of a large medieval caravanserai.