Cəlilkənd

Jalilkend
Municipality
Azerbaijani: Cəlilkənd
Jalilkend
Coordinates: 39°34′22″N 45°00′38″E / 39.57278°N 45.01056°E / 39.57278; 45.01056
Country	Azerbaijan
Autonomous republic	Nakhchivan
District	Sharur
Population  (2005)[citation needed]
• Total	1,701
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

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.^[1]

Under Russian rule, from 1870 through 1917, the village formed a part of the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

• Cəlilkənd at GEOnet Names Server

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