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

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History

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

* Shuvelan Park, one of the shopping malls in Azerbaijan. * Shuvelan Rehab Center.

Notable natives

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

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References

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

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Notable natives

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