Dashalti

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Dashalti (Azerbaijani) or Karin Tak (Armenian Քարին Տակ) – a village in South Caucasus. According to jurisdiction of Azerbaijan it belongs to the district of Shusha of it. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.
According to jurisdiction of unrecognized Republic of Artsakh it belongs to Shushi district of NKR.
It is also the name of the valley at the foot of the southern wall of Shusha fortress.

The whole willage, houses, old Armenian church, graveyard, memorials, school - all was destroyed to foundation and leveled to ground by azeris in March-April 2024 period.

Dashalti and Karin Tak names mean "Under Stone (Rock)" in both languages. In Armenian language K'ar referred also to one of the old names of pre-Persian period Shushi fortress, so name K'arin Tak literally means "Under the Fortress of Shushi".
The village was found at 1700-s by resettlers form Khtzaberd and Metz Tagher villages.
It had an ethnic Armenian-majority population in 1989.

The village was under control of the Armenian forces in 1991–2020.
On the last day of 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war – 9 November 2020 – the Azerbaijani troops got control of the village, and after that, the city of Shusha itself.
Satellite imagery on 2024 shows the Qarin Tak village was destroyed and leveled to earth by azeris. The Armenian houses, churches, school, memorials, graveyard with century old cross-stones - all is gone sharing the fate of Armenian quarter of Shushi and Old Jugha cemetery and finding again a deaf silence of world community.