Shirvan

For other places with the same name, see Shirvan (disambiguation).
For the history of the area prior to the late Sassanid and early Islamic era, see Caucasian Albania

The battle between the young Ismail and Shah Farrukh Yassar of Shirvan.
Shirvan from map of the Caucasus by Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke. 1804

Shirvan (from Persian: شیروان, romanized: Shirvān; Azerbaijani: Şirvan; Tat: Şirvan)[a] is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known in both pre-Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times.[2] Today, the region is an industrially and agriculturally developed part of the Republic of Azerbaijan that stretches between the western shores of the Caspian Sea and the Kura River, centered on the Shirvan Plain.

  1. ^ "Chirvan", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. II (1st ed.), Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, 1771.
  2. ^ Barthold & Bosworth 1997, pp. 487–488.


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