Khoy Khanate

Khoy Khanate was an Iranian khanate (e.g. principality) in the province of Azerbaijan. The city of Khoy was inhabited and ruled by the Donboli clan, a Kurdish tribe originally from Anatolia, since the 14th century B.C. In 1530 Hajji Beg Donboli, son of Sheikh Ahmad Beg, received the rule over Khoy and Sokmanabad on behalf of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp II and could establish his family's rule over the whole area and finally also over the city of Tabriz, where another branch ruled the Tabriz Khanate.^[1]

Line of Khans of Khoy

• Shahbaz Khan I (The Martyr, killed by Ayub Khan), †1731, governor of Churs and Salmas, 1st Khan of Khoy.
• Morteza Qoli Khan (his son), †1746, r. 1731-1746 governor of Khoy, 2nd Khan of Khoy.
• Shahbaz Khan II (his son), †1773, 1744 joined his uncle and entered service of Nader Shah Afshar, 1750 allied with Azad Khan Afghan, 1757 allied with Mohammad Hassan Khan Qajar (father of Agha Mohammad Khan), 1762 allied with Karim Khan Zand, 1747-1763 governor of Khoy and Salmas, 3rd Khan of Khoy
• Ahmad Khan (his brother), *1735, †1786, 1763-1786 governor of Khoy, 4th Khan of Khoy
• Hossein Qoli Khan (his son), *1756, †1798, 1786–1793 and 1797-1798 governor of Khoy, 1791 allied with Agha Mohammad Khan and his Qajar dynasty, became governor of Tabriz, Khoy and Ardabil, 1792 entitled amir ol-'omara ("chief commander") and beglerbegi ("governor-general") of Azerbaijan, 1793 fell out of favor but was 1797 reinstated by Fath Ali Shah Qajar in all posts, 5th Khan of Khoy
• Jafar Qoli Khan (his brother), †1814, 1793–1797 and 1798–1799 governor of Khoy, migrated 1800 to Russia and became 1806-1814 governor of Shekki, 6th Khan of Khoy
• Mohammad Sadegh Khan (son of Hossein Qoli Khan), amir ol-'omara, 1798-1813 governor of Azerbaijan, 7th Khan of Khoy.
• Mahmud Khan (grandson of Shahbaz Khan II), died 1844, 1799-1800 governor of Khoy, 8th Khan of Khoy.^[2]

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