Şəybəy (also, Sheybey) is a village situated in

Jabrayil district Jabrayil District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the south-west of the country and belongs to the East Zangezur Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khojavend, Fuzuli, Qubadli, Zangilan, and t ...

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, being placed on the left bank of Chaylag River (the left tributary of

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) 14 km east of the city of

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Toponym

According to the “Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Toponyms of Azerbaijan”, the village was originally called Shafibeyli (according to a local legend, it was founded by Shafi Bey, a native from the Iranian Azerbaijan). Later the village began to be called Sheybey in honour of the son of Shafi Bey.

History

According to a local legend, the village was founded by Shafi Bey, a native from the

Iranian Azerbaijan Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (, , ), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq and Turkey to the west and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijani exclave of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republ ...

. During the years of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, the village of Shafi-beylu was part of the

, Elizavetpol province. During the Soviet years, the village was part of the

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. The village was captured by Armenian forces in the

First Karabakh War The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh bac ...

and was destroyed. On the evening of October 3, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the

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liberated the villages of

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, Mehdili, Chakhyrly, Ashaghy-Maralyan, Sheybey, Guyjag in

and Ashaghy-Abdurahmanly in Fuzuli districts of Azerbaijan. The Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan officially confirmed the liberation of these villages by the armed forces of Azerbaijan.

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later reported that all the villages liberated in the south, according to Azerbaijan, judging by satellite images, lie in ruins and have been completely or almost completely abandoned since the Azerbaijani population left them in the early 1990s to escape the advancing Armenians. It's currently uninhabited. On 7 October 2020, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence published a footage that shows the village of Sheybey under Azerbaijani control.

Population

According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886”, in the village of Shafi-beylu, Guyjag rural district, Jabrayil district, there were 26 dym where lived 127 Azerbaijanis (listed as “Tatars”) residents, who were peasants. According to the “Caucasian Calendar” for 1912, 192 people lived in the village of Shafibeylu, Karyagin district, mostly Azerbaijanis, indicated in the calendar as “Tatars”.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seybey Populated places in Jabrayil District