ISBN: 9781156218815

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Karabakh khanate was a semi-independent state ruled by a Turkic family established in about 1750 under Persian suzerainty in Karabakh and adjacent areas until 1805, when the Russian Empire gained control over the Karabakh khanate in 1805 from Persia. The Russian annexation of Karabakh was not Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Karabakh khanate was a semi-independent state ruled by a Turkic family established in about 1750 under Persian suzerainty in Karabakh and adjacent areas until 1805, when the Russian Empire gained control over the Karabakh khanate in 1805 from Persia. The Russian annexation of Karabakh was not formalized until the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, when, as a result of Russo-Persian War (1804-1813), Fath Ali Shah Qajar of Persia officially ceded Karabakh to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. The khanate was abolished in 1822, after a few years of Russian tolerance towards its Muslim rulers, and a province, with a military administration, was formed. The precursor of the Karabakh khanate, a feudal mulk (landholding) given by Safavid shahs of Iran to Qajar-related Ziyadoglu family in 1606, was initially founded in the lowland part of Karabakh ("Karabakh Steppe"), away from the lands currently known as Nagorno-Karabakh. However, following the collapse of Safavid dynasty and the death of Nadir Shah Afshar in 1747, Safavid domain split into several independent khanates. During this period, Panah-Ali khan Javanshir of Karabakh consolidated his local power by establishing a de facto independent khanate and subordinating the five Armenian meliks (princes) in the region, which were referred to as Khamsa (five in Arabic), with support of the Armenian prince Melik Shahnazar II Shahnazarian of Varanda, who first accepted Panah-Ali Khan's suzerainty. The capital of the khanate was first the castle of Bayat in 1748, in the Karabakh Steppe, followed by the newly built town of Panahabad in 1750-1752. During the reign of Ibrahim-Khalil khan, son of Panah-Ali khan, Panahabad became a large town and was renamed to Shusha, apparently after the name of the nearest Armenian. More: Books, , Khanates-of-the-South-Caucasus~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

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