[2] According to a local legend, the village was founded by Shafi Bey, a native from the Iranian Azerbaijan.

[3] During the years of the Russian Empire, the village of Shafi-beylu was part of the Jabrayil district, Elizavetpol province.

[4] On the evening of October 3, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the Azerbaijani Army liberated the villages of Talysh in Terter, Mehdili, Chakhyrly, Ashaghy-Maralyan, Sheybey, Guyjag in Jabrayil and Ashaghy-Abdurahmanly in Fuzuli districts of Azerbaijan.

[7] BBC later reported that all the villages liberated in the south, according to Azerbaijan, judging by satellite images, lie in ruins and have been completely or almost completely abandoned since the Azerbaijani population left them in the early 1990s to escape the advancing Armenians.

[10] According to the “Code of statistical data of the Transcaucasian region population, extracted from the family lists of 1886”, in the village of Shafi-beylu, Guyjag rural district, Jabrayil district, there were 26 dym where lived 127 Azerbaijanis (listed as “Tatars”) residents, who were peasants.