Ardabil Khanate
Ardabil Khanate خانات اردبیل | |||||||||
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| 1747–1808 | |||||||||
| Status | Khanate | ||||||||
| Capital | Ardabil | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (official), Azerbaijani (Majority) | ||||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1747 | ||||||||
• Independence from Afsharids | 1747 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1808 | ||||||||
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Ardabil Khanate (Persian: خانات اردبیل) was an 18th-19th century khanate based in Ardabil. It was established by Badr Khan in 1736, who attended the coronation of Nader Shah in January 1736.[1] The khanate was ruled by Sarikhanbayli clan of Shahsevan tribal alliance. It was disestablished in 1808 and converted to a province of Qajar Iran.
List of rulers
- Badr Khan Sarikhanbayli-Shahsevan (as paramount chief of Shahsevans) 1736 - 1747
- Nazarali Khan Sarikhanbayli-Shahsevan 1757 - 1792 (acknowledged as khan by Karim Khan Zand)
- Tala Hassan Khan (ruled as puppet of Fatali Khan of Quba in 1784–1785)
- Nasir Khan Sarikhanbayli-Shahsevan 1792 - 1797
- Nazarali Khan II 1797-1808
References
- ^ Tapper 1997, p. 105.
Sources
- Bournoutian, George (2021). From the Kur to the Aras: A Military History of Russia's Move into the South Caucasus and the First Russo-Iranian War, 1801–1813. Brill. ISBN 978-9004445154.
- Tapper, Richard (1997). Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52158-336-7.
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