Cəlilkənd
| Cəlilkənd | |
|---|---|
| Municipality | |
  Cəlilkənd | |
| Coordinates: 39°34′22″N 45°00′38″E / 39.57278°N 45.01056°ECoordinates: 39°34′22″N 45°00′38″E / 39.57278°N 45.01056°E | |
| Country |
 Azerbaijan |
| Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
| District | Sharur |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 1,701 |
| Time zone | AZT (UTC+4) |
Cəlilkənd (also, Bash Norashen and Dzhalilkend) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located in the left side of the Nakhchivan-Sadarak highway, 4 km in the north-east from the district center, on the Sharur plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, foddering, vegetable-growing, beet-growing and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, cultural house, kindergarten, pharmacy, a medical center and House Museum of J. Memmedquluzade in the village. It has a population of 1,701. There are cyclops buildings of the 2nd millennium of BC (popularly called as qalaça) in the village.[1]
Etymology and History
It was previously known as Bash Norashen and under Russian rule, from 1870 through 1917, it was the administrative center of Sharur-Daralagozsky Uyezd.[1] In 1961 the village was renamed in honour of Cəlil Məmmədquluzadə, the writer and satirist who wrote his first allegorical work (Çay dəstgahı) while serving as a teacher (October 13, 1887 – January 13, 1890) at the local school. The name of the village is a toponym memorial.[2][3]
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