Maku Khanate

Khanate of Maku was an 18th-19th century khanate based in Maku.[1][2] The khanate is known as one of the Azerbaijani khanates.[3][4]

It came into existence after the death of Nader Shah which led to the breakup of the Safavid empire, and gain semi-independence.[5][6] It rejoined the Persian Empire in 1829,[6] however was not abolished for another century after the death of Murtada Kuli Khan Ikhal al-Saltana (1863–1923).[7]

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References

  1. ↑ http://dmfa.nakhchivan.az/page.php?lang=eng&page=000104
  2. ↑ Iran
  3. ↑ Tadeusz Swietochowski. Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of National Identity in a Muslim Community. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521522455
    Azerbaijani khanates and the conquest by Russia In 1747 Nadir Shah, the strong ruler who had established his hold over Persia eleven years earlier, was assassinated in a palace coup, and his empire fell into chaos and anarchy. These circumstances effectively terminated the suzerainty of Persia over Azerbaijan, where local centers of power emerged in the form of indigenous principalities, independent or virtually so, inasmuch as some maintained tenuous links to Persia's weak Zand dynasty. Thus began a half-century-long period of Azerbaijani independence, albeit in a condition of deep political fragmentation and internal warfare. Most of the principalities were organized as khanates, small replicas of the Persian monarchy, including Karabagh, Sheki, Ganja, Baku, Derbent, Kuba, Nakhichevan, Talysh, and Erivan in northern Azerbaijan and Tabriz, Urmi, Ardabil, Khoi, Maku, Maragin, and Karadagh in its southern part. Many of the khanates were subdivided into mahals (regions), territorial units inhabited by members of the same tribe, reflecting the fact that residue of tribalism was still strong.
  4. ↑ Andrew Burke. Iran. Lonely Planet, 2010. Стр. 136.
    Long a key fortress and citadel guarding the Ottoman-Persian frontier, Maku was one of many Azerbaijani khanates that gained semi-independence in the chaotic period following the death of Nadir Shah in 1749.
  5. ↑ Tadeusz Swietochowski (2004). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920. p. 2. ISBN 0521522455.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Andrew Burke, Mark Elliott (2008). Iran. Lonely Planet Publications. p. 136. ISBN 1741042933.
  7. ↑ Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, et al., eds. (ed.). "Maku, khanate". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill Publishers. pp. 180–2. OCLC 8096647.