Safavid Shirvan

Shirvan
Velāyat-e Shirvān
ولایت شیروان
1501–1736
Capital Shamakhi
Languages Persian, Azerbaijani
Government Not specified
History
 •  Establishment 1501
 •  Disestablished 1736
Preceded by 		Succeeded by
Shirvanshah
Shirvan Khanate
Today part of  Azerbaijan
 Russia

The Shirvan province (Persian: ولایت شیروان‎, translit. Velāyat-e Shirvān‎) was an velayat (province) founded by the Safavid Empire on the territory of modern Azerbaijan and Russia (Dagestan) between 1501 and 1736 with its capital in the town of Shamakhi.[1]

The province had six administrative jurisdictions; Alpa'ur, Arash—Shaki, Baku, Chemeshgazak—Agdash, Derbent (Darband), Quba—Qolhan, and Saliyan.[2] The capital of Shamakhi had a separate governor, but is not mentioned by the then contemporary historians and geographers to have formed a separate administrative jurisdiction.[3]

Control over Shirvan was firmly held by the Safavids from the time of the subjugation of Shirvan (except for several brief Ottoman intermissions) when eventually the Afsharid ruler of Iran, Nader Shah established firm rule over the area until the area. After his death, the area was divided into various subordinate various khanates, before they were conquered by the Russian Empire from Qajar Iran in the course of the 19th century.[4]

History

Having ended the rule of the Shirvanshahs in 1538, Tahmasp I established Shirvan as an administrative unit of the empire. At the end of the 16th century, the Ottoman General Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha briefly captured Shirvan during the Ottoman-Safavid War (1578-1590) and appointed Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha as its govenror. In 1607, Shah Abbas I invaded Shirvan again and instituted Qizilbash rule over the province. After several interstate wars, Shirvan was eventually captured by Nader Shah in 1734 to establish Safavid rule over the province again.[1][5]

List of governors

Date Governor
1501 Bahram Beg*
1501-1502 Gazi Beg*
1502 Sultan Mahmud*
1502-1509 Ibrahim II Shaykhshah*
1509-1519 Hossein Beg Laleh
1519-1524 Ibrahim II Shaykhshah*
1523-1535 Khalilullah II*
1535-1538 Shahrukh*
1538-1541 Badr Khan Ustajlu
1538-1543 Ghazi Khan Tekkelu
1543-1547 Badr Khan Ustajlu
1547-1549 Shahverdi Sultan
1548-1550 Burhan Ali*§
1549 Mehrab Mirza*§
1549-1550 Qorban Ali Mirza*§
1554 Qasem Mirza*§
1549-1565 Abdollah Khan Ustajlu
1566 Mostafa Beg
1566 Shah Beg Ali
1567 Farrokhzad Beg Qaradaghlu
1567-1576 Aras Khan Rumlu
1577 Abu Torab Soltan Ustajlu
1577 Kavus Mirza*§
1577 Aras Soltan Khan Rumlu
1578 Abu Bakr Mirza*§
1578 Panah Mohammad Khan Dhu'l-Qadr
1578-? Mohammad Khan Khalifeh Hajjilar Dhu'l-Qadr
1579 Suleiman Khan Ustajlu
1580-1583 Peykar Beg Khan Ziyadoghlu
1583 Khalifeh Ansar Qaradajlu
1583-1607 Ottoman occupation

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Khalilli, Fariz (2009). ŞAMAXI TARİX-DİYARŞÜNASLIQ MUZEYİ [Shamakhi Historical and Locality Museum]. Baku: ANAS. p. 103. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
  2. ↑ Nasiri, Ali Naqi; Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration. Mage Publishers. p. 284. ISBN 978-1933823232.
  3. ↑ Nasiri, Ali Naqi; Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration. Mage Publishers. p. 284. ISBN 978-1933823232.
  4. ↑ Afandiyev, O. A. (1993). Azərbaycan Səfəvilər dövləti [Safavid state of Azerbaijan]. Baku. p. 57.
  5. ↑ Fleischer, Cornell H. (1989). Mustafa Ali and the Politics of Cultural Despair. Cambridge University Press.

Sources

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.