Ashig Alasgar

Ashig Alasgar
Born1821 (1821)
Aghkilsa, Erivan Khanate
DiedMarch 7, 1926 (aged 104105)
Aghkilsa, Nor Bayazet uezd, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Website
dede-alesker.com

Ashig Alasgar (Azerbaijani: Aşıq Ələsgər; 1821 – 7 March 1926) was an Azerbaijani mystic troubadour (Ashik) and highly regarded poet of Azerbaijani folk songs. He was born in the village of Azat, then known as Aghkilsa, in what was then the Goycha District of the Erivan Khanate.