Khanate of Shirvan خانات شروان | |||||||||
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| 1761–1820 | |||||||||
 The South Caucasus in the last quarter of the 18th century. The Shirvan Khanate is located on the far right | |||||||||
| Status | Khanate Under Iranian suzerainty[1] | ||||||||
| Capital | Old Shamakhi New Shamakhi (Aqsu) | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (official)[2][3] Azerbaijani Armenian[4] Tat[5] | ||||||||
| Ethnic groups | Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis),[6] Kurds, Armenians, Jews, Russians, Iranians (1820 survey)[7] | ||||||||
| Religion | Shia Islam | ||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Assassination of Nader Shah | 1761 | ||||||||
• Annexation by Imperial Russia | 1820 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Azerbaijan | ||||||||
Shirvan Khanate (Persian: خانات شیروان, romanized: Khānāt-e Shirvan) was a Caucasian khanate under Iranian suzerainty, which controlled the Shirvan region from 1761 to 1820.
- ^ Bournoutian, George A. (2016). The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province prior to its Annexation by Russia. Gibb Memorial Trust. p. xvii. ISBN 978-1909724808.
Serious historians and geographers agree that after the fall of the Safavids, and especially from the mid-eighteenth century, the territory of the South Caucasus was composed of the khanates of Ganja, Kuba, Shirvan, Baku, Talesh, Sheki, Karabagh, Nakhichivan and Yerevan, all of which were under Iranian suzerainty.
- ^ 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 dependant 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.
- ^ Karapetyan, Samvel (1997). "Shamakhi". The Armenian Lapidary Inscriptions of Boon-Aghvank. Vol. 1. "Gitutiun" Publishing House of NAS RA. p. 54. ISBN 5-8080-0144-7.
- ^ A Grammar of Şirvan Tat, Murad Suleymanov, ISBN 9783752000115
- ^ Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). "18. 1886–1890: An Ethnolinguistic Map of the Caucasus". Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0300160109.
Also notable was the continuing use in the late nineteenth century of several ethnic categories that would later be differently applied or discontinued: "Tatars" (or in rarer cases, "Azerbaijani Tatars") to denote Turkic-speaking Transcaucasian populations that would later be called "Azerbaijanis"
- ^ Bournoutian 2016b, p. 195.