Baku Khanate خانات باکو | |||||||||
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| 1747–1806 | |||||||||
 Baku Khanate and its borders 1806. | |||||||||
| Status | Khanate Under Iranian suzerainty[1] | ||||||||
| Capital | Baku | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (official, literature)[2][3][4] Tat language (primary)[5][6] | ||||||||
| Religion | Shia Islam | ||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||
• 1747–1768 | Mirza Muhammad Khan I (first) | ||||||||
• 1792–1806 | Hosein Qoli Khan Badkubeh (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1747 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1806 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Azerbaijan | ||||||||
The Baku Khanate (Persian: خانات باکو, romanized: Khānāt-e Baku), was a khanate under Iranian suzerainty, which controlled the city of Baku and its surroundings from 1747 to 1806.
- ^ Bournoutian 2016a, p. xvii.
- ^ Bournoutian 1994, p. x.
- ^ Swietochowski, Tadeusz (2004). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0521522458.
(...) and Persian continued to be the official language of the judiciary and the local administration [even after the abolishment of the khanates].
- ^ Pavlovich, Petrushevsky Ilya (1949). Essays on the history of feudal relations in Armenia and Azerbaijan in XVI - the beginning of XIX centuries. LSU them. Zhdanov. p. 7.
(...) The language of official acts not only in Iran proper and its fully dependent Khanates, but also in those Caucasian khanates that were semi-independent until the time of their accession to the Russian Empire, and even for some time after, was New Persian (Farsi). It played the role of the literary language of class feudal lords as well.
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 9.
- ^ Tonoyan 2019, pp. 368–369.