Shabaran (also spelled Shaburan and Shaberan; Persian: شاوران), was a town and district in the historical region of Shirvan, in what is now the eastern part of Azerbaijan.

[2] The 10th-century Persian geography Hudud al-'Alam refers to it as Shav.ran, whilst The Georgian Chronicles calls it Shaburan, which points to a possible relation to Shavur (Shapur?

[5] The sudden emergence of Iranian names among the descendants of Shirvanshah Yazid ibn Ahmad (r. 991–1027) is significant in relation to the fact that he and his daughter Shamkuya were buried in Shabaran.

[6] In 1167, Akhsitan I of Shirvan asked the King of Georgia George III to help him to defend from Kipchak, Khazar, Alan and Rus' assaulters.

[7] In 1538 Shirvanshah rule was abolished by the Safavid shahs (kings) of Iran, who turned Shirvan into a province,[8] which Shabaran was part of.