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Safavid Shirvan
Shirvan Velāyat-e Shirvān ولایت شیروان | |||||||||
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| 1501–1736 | |||||||||
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| Status | Province of the Safavid Empire Under Ottoman occupation (1583–1607) | ||||||||
| Capital | Shamakhi | ||||||||
| Common languages | Azerbaijani, Persian, Armenian[1] | ||||||||
| Government | Province | ||||||||
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| History | |||||||||
• Establishment | 1501 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1736 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Azerbaijan Russia | ||||||||
The Shirvan province (Persian: ولایت شیروان, romanized: Velāyat-e Shirvān) was a 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.[2]
The province had six administrative jurisdictions; Alpa'ur, Arash—Shaki, Baku, Chemeshgazak—Agdash, Derbent (Darband), Quba—Qolhan, and Saliyan.[3] 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]
- ^ Hasan Javadi; Willem Floor (2013). "The Role of Azerbaijani Turkish in Safavid Iran". Iranian Studies. 46 (4). Routledge: 570. doi:10.1080/00210862.2013.784516. S2CID 161700244.
A Jesuit missionary noted around 1690 that in Shirvan three languages were spoken, Turkish which is the most common one, corrupted Persian, and Armenian.
- ^ Khalilli, Fariz (2009). ŞAMAXI TARİX-DİYARŞÜNASLIQ MUZEYİ [Shamakhi Historical and Locality Museum]. Baku: ANAS. p. 103. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Afandiyev, O. A. (1993). Azərbaycan Səfəvilər dövləti [Safavid state of Azerbaijan]. Baku. p. 57.
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