Saatly District

Saatly District
Saatly District; Saatlı rayonu
	Rayon
	Map of Azerbaijan showing Saatly rayon
Country	Azerbaijan
Capital	Saatlı
Area
• Total	1,180.5 km2 (455.8 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	103,400
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Postal code	4900
Telephone code	(+994) 21[1]

Saatly (Azerbaijani: Saatlı) is an administrative district (rayon) in Azerbaijan. It was established in 1943 and has a current population of 87,000. The district's headquarters are in the city of Saatlı.

General information

The ethnonology of “Saatly” was established in the province called Cukhur Sedd on the bank of Araz River in late 14th century. Historically Saatlis settled in the lower flow of Arpachay river. Beginning from 1430s, Saatlis began to re-settle in the neighboring areas. One part of them was settled in the Kazakh region. However, some of them came to Karabakh between 1795 and 1798. The name of the tribe comes from people living in Chukhur Saad or, it is an ethnic name of Saadli Tribe who are Azerbaijani Turks historically settled in Agridag. The district is also home to a large Meskhetian Turkish minority.

Several findings relating to ancient settlements in Saatli were founded. Archeological monuments, as well as pottery materials of the 2nd and 3rd millennials B.C, were excavated in villages of Azadkand, Fetelikand, Jafarkhan, Varkhankand and Alisoltanli.

The Saatly region was formed during the war period of 1941–1945. During those years, 1600 people were sent to the front lines. 533 people died in the war. In 1949 part of the Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenian SSR residents of Jalalabad region in 1953, Akhiska Turks from Middle Asia in 1958–59 and 1989 and part of the people who became refugees as a result of Armenia's occupation policy in 1988–89 were settled in Saatly region.

In the war which began with Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan, youth from Saatly region also fought heroically. Saatly gave 116 martyrs in the fight for Azerbaijan's sovereignty.

Like other regions of Azerbaijan, the region began to revive and flourish the social-economic and cultural-political state in every field beginning from 1970.

Saatly had 19 school buildings, central hospital for 390 people, cultural center of 450 places, 11 medical point in villages, music school, kindergarten for 450 children, two five-storey buildings with 35 apartments, two-storey mall, other administrative buildings, cotton-cleaning and milk plant, bread making plant as well as other industrial, transportation and service institutions were created in the region during 1970s-80s.

Geography

The region is situated in low-land and 28 meters lower above the sea level. The region has dry summer with semi arid and dry climate. Average temperature is 1.4 °C in January and 26,2 °C in summer. The annual precipitation is 300 mm.

Saatly is mainly an agricultural region. Cotton planting, farming and vegetable production are main agriculture in the region.

Population

According to the State Statistics Committee, as of 2018, the population of region recorded 106,5 thousand persons, which increased by 23 thousand persons (27 percent) from 83.5 thousand persons in 2000.[2] 53,9 thousand of total population are men, 52,6 thousand are women.[3]

The population of district by the year (at the beginning of the year, thsd. persons) [2]
Population	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Saatly region	83,5	84,5	85,1	85,7	86,4	87,5	88,6	89,8	91,0	92,2	93,6	95,1	97,0	98,7	100,2	101,8	103,4	105,1	106,5
urban population	16,6	16,7	16,8	16,9	16,9	17,1	17,2	17,2	17,3	17,5	17,6	17,8	17,9	18,0	18,8	18,9	19,2	19,4	19,7
rural population	66,9	67,8	68,3	68,8	69,5	70,4	71,4	72,6	73,7	74,7	76,0	77,3	79,1	80,7	81,4	82,9	84,2	85,7	86,8

Gallery of Saatly

Saatly City Hall

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gollark: I got a box of 100 perfectly good pens last year.

gollark: Who would *buy* them?

gollark: How did you get away with selling pens for *that* much?

gollark: These are distinguishable, right?

References

"Şəhərlərarası telefon kodları". Aztelekom MMC. Aztelekom İB. Retrieved 19 August 2015. (in Azerbaijani)
"Political division, population size and structure: Population by towns and regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan". The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
"Political division, population size and structure: Population by sex, towns and regions, urban settlements of the Republic of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 2018". Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2018-12-13.