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Şada
Municipality
Country	Azerbaijan
Autonomous republic	Nakhchivan Rayon
Population
• Total	164
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Şada (also, Sada, Shada, Shadakend, and Shady) is a village and the least populous municipality in the Shahbuz District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 18 km in the north-west from the district center, on the slope of the Daralayaz ridge. Its population is busy with mainly animal husbandry. There are secondary school, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 164.

Etymology

Şada (Shada) is located on slope of the Daralayaz ridge. Likely it has connected with suffered version of the phonetic change of the Turkic shoto ethnonym. According to sources, the tribe took its name from the same named desert. The Shatos which established their own state in the Chu valley of East Turkestan in the VII century, settled in the territory of Azerbaijan during the Oghuz, Khazars and Mongols campaign. In the XIX century, the tribal was registered under the name of Shada within Kyrgyzs.

References

1. ANAS, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2005). Nakhchivan Encyclopedia. Vol. volume II. Baku: ANAS. p. 283. ISBN 5-8066-1468-9. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
2. Encyclopedic dictionary of Azerbaijan toponyms. In two volumes. Volume II. p. 304. Baku: "East-West". 2007. ISBN 978-9952-34-155-3.

• Şada (as Sada) at GEOnet Names Server

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Capital: Şahbuz
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