Şabran

Şabran, written Shabran in English, is a city in Azerbaijan and the capital of the Shabran District. Until 2010 it was known as Davachi, in Azerbaijani Dəvəçi, and it received city status in 1961. Its present name comes from an older medieval town of the same name, a port that lay some fifteen kilometres further north. The officially registered population in 2010 was 23,248, and the largest ethnic groups are Azerbaijanis and Tats. Its article lists Shabran Railway Station among the city's transport facilities, and the place name is also catalogued in the GEOnet Names Server of the United States government.