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6 unusual facts about Salyan


Aghasi Khan

Fatali khan was defeated in 1774 with combined forces of Shaki Khanate, Avar Khanate, Kaitag and retreated to Salyan.

Ali bey Huseynzade

Ali bey Huseynzade was born in 1864 to a family of Muslim religious cleric in Salyan, in the present-day Azerbaijan.

Farrukh Yassar II

Not much known about his reign, even his existence wasn't known until discovery of 906 silver Shirvanshah coins in 1934, Salyan.

Neftchala District

But similar mixed system for control did not justify itself, and the once again Neftchala region was again liquidated in 1965 and became part of the Salyan.

Until this time it was located in the area of modern Salyan, and during the year it become part of the Khilly region, organized on January 24, 1939.

Salyan, Azerbaijan

Salyan was also the home to another former football team, Plastik Salyan.


Gobustan National Park

Many geologists as well as locals and international mud tourists trek to such places as the Firuz Crater, Gobustan, Salyan and end up happily covered in mud which is thought to have medicinal qualities.

Kham Magar

Kham are descriptive terms invented by academic linguists and anthropologists for a nationality in the Middle Hills of mid-western Nepal inhabiting highlands extending through eastern Rukum and northern Salyan, Rolpa and Pyuthan Districts in Rapti Zone as well as adjacent parts of Dhaulagiri and Bheri Zones.

Khudat

During this time, Hussein-khan, a native of the region, had spent time in Persia and adopted Shia Islam, creating favor in the eyes of the Shah, who granted him rule over both the Quba and Salyan khanates.

Neftchala District

Due Neftchala was exceptionally industrial region, it was liquidated in December 1959 and unified with the Salyan region.


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