Salyan, Azerbaijan
Encyclopedia
Salyan is a city in and the seat of the Salyan Rayon of Azerbaijan
. The city of Salyan is industrialized and known for processing caviar
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. Salyan was part of Quba Khanate
during 1680 to 1782 and ruled by various khans.
team competing in the top-flight of Azerbaijan
i football - FK Mughan
, currently playing in the Azerbaijan Premier League
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
. The city of Salyan is industrialized and known for processing caviar
Caviar
Caviar, sometimes called black caviar, is a luxury delicacy, consisting of processed, salted, non-fertilized sturgeon roe. The roe can be "fresh" or pasteurized, the latter having much less culinary and economic value....
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History
The city has been a continuous settlement of sal tribe, after whom the city named and occupied by Kura riverKura River
Kura is a river, also known from the Greek as the Cyrus in the Caucasus Mountains. Starting in north-eastern Turkey, it flows through Turkey to Georgia, then to Azerbaijan, where it receives the Aras River as a right tributary, and enters the Caspian Sea...
. Salyan was part of Quba Khanate
Quba Khanate
The Quba Khanate was an independent principality on the territory of modern day Azerbaijan from 1747-1806. The Quba Khanate was founded as a feudal hold around 1680 as a result of a land grant to the Saytaq family, who were related to both the Qajar dynasty and the Utsmi of Tarki in Dagestan and...
during 1680 to 1782 and ruled by various khans.
Salyan Khanate
- (1729–1748) Hasanbay Khan
- (1748–1757) Ibrahim Khan
- (1757–1768) Kalb Ali Khan
- (1768–1782) Qubad Khan
Azerbaijan
- (1993) A.Yusubov
- (1993–2004) Valihat Azizov
- (2004) Yusif Alakbarov
- (2004–2009) Rasim Bashirov
- (2009–present) Aliagha Huseynov
Sport
The city has one professional footballFootball (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
team competing in the top-flight of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
i football - FK Mughan
FK Mughan
FK Mughan Salyan is an Azerbaijani football club, based in Salyan. The club reached the Azerbaijan Premier League for the first time in 2008-2009. The club was first promoted after FK Masallı withdrew for the 2008/09 season...
, currently playing in the Azerbaijan Premier League
Azerbaijan Premier League
-Attendance:- Records :Players in the Premier League compete for the Azerbaijan Premier League Golden Boot, awarded to the top scorer at the end of each season. Nazim Aliyev is the league's all-time top scorer with 183 goals, including 39 in the 1992 season.During the 1995–96 season he became the...
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Notable residents
- Vagif GuliyevVagif GuliyevProf. Vagif Guliyev is an Azerbaijani mathematician. He was born in Salyan district of Azerbaijan republic, USSR. He has earned Doctor of Sciences Degree from Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow in 1994. He has written three books and more than 100 published articles...
, Azerbaijani mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change.... - Aliaga Kurchayli, Azerbaijani poet
- Khalil Rza UluturkKhalil Rza UluturkKhalil Rza Uluturk , was an Azerbaijani poet.-Education and career:In 1954, he graduated from the Department of Journalism at Azerbaijan State University . He attended courses for two years studying Literature for Writers and Poets at the Institute of Literature named after Maxim Gorky...
, Azerbaijani poet - Ali bey HuseynzadeAli bey HuseynzadeAli bey Huseyn oğlu Huseynzade was an Azerbaijani writer, thinker, philosopher, artist and doctor.-Early years:Ali bey Huseynzade was born in 1864 to a family of Muslim religious cleric in Salyan, in the present-day Azerbaijan. His grand father Akhund Ahmed Salyani was the Sheikh ul-Islam of the...
, Azerbaijani philosopher - Hasan Mammedov, People's Artist of Azerbaijan