Cəlilkənd
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| subdivision_name2 = Sharur
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Cəlilkənd (also, Jalilkend) 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.{{cite book| last=ANAS| first=Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences| title= Nakhchivan Encyclopedia| publisher= ANAS| location=Baku| year=2005| volume=I| page=109| isbn=5-8066-1468-9}}
Etymology and History
Under Russian rule, from 1870 through 1917, the village formed a part of the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd. In 1961 the village was renamed in honour of Jalil Mammadguluzade, 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.[http://calilbook.musigi-dunya.az/m/mammedguluzade_calil.html Mammadguluzade biography]Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms. In two volumes. Volume I. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. {{ISBN|978-9952-34-155-3}}.
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{{Sharur District}}
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Category:Populated places in Sharur District
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