Shuvalan
(Redirected from Şüvəlan)
Şüvəlan | |
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Municipality | |
 Shuvalan lighthouse | |
  Şüvəlan | |
| Coordinates: 40°29′20″N 50°12′25″E / 40.48889°N 50.20694°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| City | Baku |
| District | Xəzər-Khazar |
| Population | |
| • Total | 14,992 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Şüvəlan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 14,992. The population origin comes mostly from a settlement of Qala, Azerbaijan.
History
[edit]According to the old generation, an ancient times people in Qala, used Shuvalan as pasture for the animals: sheep, cows and horses. Then later on they moved to Shuvalan because the vegetation potential and due to cold weather in winter times in Qala.
Modern structures
[edit]- Shuvelan Park, one of the shopping malls in Azerbaijan.
Notable natives
[edit]- Almas Ildyrym - Azerbaijani Poet, after the Bolsheviks established their power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the fact that Ildyrym had been born into a wealthy merchant family plagued him for the rest of his life.
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- Ruhulla Akhundov — First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1925–1926), People's Commissar of Education of Azerbaijan SSR.[1]
- Ashraf Ashrafzade - Azerbaijani Musician (Clarinetist)
See also
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