Şüvəlan is a settlement and municipality in

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. It has a population of 14,992. The population origin comes mostly from a settlement of

Qala, Azerbaijan Qala (also, Gala and Kala-Machtagi) is a settlement and municipality in Khazar raion, Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,857. Gala State Historical Ethnographic Reserve The Gala State Historical Ethnographic Reserve is a complex of mu ...

History

According to the old generation, an ancient times people in Qala, used Shuvalan as pasture for the animals. Then later on they moved to Shuvalan because the vegetation potential and due to cold weather in winter times in Qala.

Notable natives

* Ruhulla Akhundov — First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1925–1926), People's Commissar of Education of Azerbaijan SSR. * Almas Ildyrym * Ashraf Ashrafzade-Musician

References

* Populated places in Baku {{Baku-geo-stub

History

Notable natives

See also

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