Yuxarı Salahlı (; also, Upper Salahly) is a village and municipality in the
Qazakh District
Qazax District (; ) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. Located in the northwest of the country, it belongs to the Gazakh-Tovuz Economic Region. The district borders the district of Aghstafa, and the Tavush Province of Armenia. Its capital ...
of
Azerbaijan
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. It has a population of 3,406.
Notable natives
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Samad Vurgun — prominent Azerbaijani poet, People's Poet of Azerbaijan SSR (1943).
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Ibrahim bey Usubov — Azerbaijani
Major General in
Imperial Russian Army
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and
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (), also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic (; ), was the first secular democracy, democratic republic in the Turkic peoples, Turkic and Muslim worlds.
*Tadeusz Swietochowski. ''Russia and Azerbaijan: ...
.
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Molla Panah Vagif
Molla Panah (), better known by his pen-name Vagif (), was an 18th-century Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani poet, statesman and diplomat. He is regarded as the founder of the realism genre and the modern school in Azerbaijani literature, Azerbaijani poe ...
— 18th century poet and statesman
References
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Populated places in Qazax District
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