Shuvalan
Şüvəlan | |
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Municipality | |
 Shuvalan lighthouse | |
  Şüvəlan | |
| Coordinates: 40°29′20″N 50°12′25″E / 40.48889°N 50.20694°E / 40.48889; 50.20694 | |
| 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.
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History
According to the old generation, an ancient times people in Qala, used Shuvalan as pasture for the animals: sheeps, caws 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
Shuvelan Park, one of the shopping malls in Azerbaijan.
Notable natives
- Ruhulla Akhundov — First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1925–1926), People's Commissar of Education of Azerbaijan SSR.[1]
- Almas Ildyrym - Poet
- Ashraf Ashrafzade - Musician
See also
References
- ^ "Ахундов Рухулла Али оглы". Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
- Şüvəlan (as Şüvələn) at GEOnet Names Server
