Jabrayil or Cəbrayil (also spelt Cäbrayil, Jabrayil, Jebrayil, Jebrail, Jabrail, Jäbrayyl, Jebraiele, Djebrail, Dzhebrail, Džebrail) (Urdu: جبراییل), is a city currently administrated by ethnic Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh. It was previously the capital of the Jabrayil Rayon of Azerbaijan.
The region was occupied in 1993 and has been controlled by the breakway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, as part of its Hadrut Province, since the Nagorno-Karabakh War. According to the last 1989 Soviet census, there were 49,156 people in the rayon. According to undated Azerbaijani data, the population of the rayon was 62,100. Jabrail rayon has productive soils, before of war the population mostly was involved in agriculture. Jabrail has its southern borders with Iran.
- Jamil Ahmadov — Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Teymur Guliyev — Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1937–1953) and the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR (1953–1954)
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