Şabran (city)
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| Rayon : | Şabran | ||
| Founded : | 1961 (town charter) | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 12 ′ N , 48 ° 59 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 50 m | ||
| Area : | 84 km² | ||
| Residents : | 24,000 (2014) | ||
| Population density : | 286 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | AZT ( UTC + 4 ) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+994) 2335 | ||
| Postal code : | AZ1700 | ||
| License plate : | 17th | ||
| Community type: | City (şəhər) | ||
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Şabran (also Shabran ) is a city in Azerbaijan . It is the administrative seat of the Şabran Rayon and has a population of 24,000 (as of 2014).
geography
The city is located a good 10 km from the coast of the Caspian Sea at the foot of the Greater Caucasus in northern Azerbaijan.
history
As a village with the original name Dəvəçibazar ( Russian Дивичибазар , Diwitschibasar ) the place gained some importance with the passing of the railway line Rostov-on-Don - Baku at the end of the 19th century. On August 8, 1930, it became the administrative seat of a Rajon of the Azerbaijani SSR of the Soviet Union . On August 2, 1944, the place was given the status of a settlement under the shortened name Dəvəçi (Russian Дивичи , Diwitschi ) - that is the name of the station since it opened, and this form was already unofficially in use for the place and officially for the Rajon - the status of a settlement urban type (Russian посёлок городского типа ; today's Azerbaijani equivalent qəsəbə ), and on December 25, 1961 the city rights. In 2010 the city and the Rajon were renamed after the medieval city of Şabran , which was located almost 15 km to the north-west and was finally destroyed in the 18th century and excavated again from 1979 , by whose name the surrounding area was also known.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1897 | 1.003 |
| 1939 | 1,689 |
| 1959 | 5,932 |
| 1970 | 13,392 |
| 1979 | 15,374 |
| 1989 | 18,647 |
| 2008 | 22,000 |
| 2014 | 24,000 |
Note: census data up to 1989, rounded from 2009
traffic
The city is located on the double-track railway line from Baku to the Russian border, which was opened in 1900 and has been electrified since 1973 and operated by the Azərbaycan Dəmir Yolları railway company (km 2529 from Moscow ). On the south-western outskirts of the city, the M1 trunk road runs from Baku to Quba and further to the Russian border, also European route 119 . A few kilometers to the northwest, the R1 regional road branches off in the direction of Xaçmaz - Xudat .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population by sex, economic and administrative regions, urban settlements of the Republic of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 2014 ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan)
- ^ SA Melʹnikov, Č. G. Ibragimov: Azerbajdžanskaja SSR. Administrativno-territorial ʹ noe delenie na 1 janvarja 1977 goda . 4th edition. Baku 1979 (Russian, online [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
- ^ Report on the renaming in 2010 ( Memento from April 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )