Shirvan Velāyat-e Shirvān ولایت شیروان | |||||||||
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| Status | Province of theSafavid Empire UnderOttoman 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 | ||||||||
TheShirvan province (Persian:ولایت شیروان,romanized: Velāyat-e Shirvān) was a province founded by theSafavid Empire on the territory of modernAzerbaijan andRussia (Dagestan) between 1501 and 1736 with its capital in the town ofShamakhi.[2]
The province had six administrative jurisdictions; Alpa'ur,Arash—Shaki,Baku, Chemeshgazak—Agdash,Derbent (Darband),Quba—Qolhan, andSaliyan.[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 briefOttoman intermissions) when eventually theAfsharid ruler of Iran,Nader Shah established firm rule over the area until the area. After his death, the area was divided into various subordinatevarious khanates, before they were conquered by the Russian Empire fromQajar Iran in the course of the 19th century.[4]
Having ended the rule of theShirvanshahs in 1538,Tahmasp I established Shirvan as an administrative unit of the empire. At the end of the 16th century, the Ottoman GeneralLala Kara Mustafa Pasha briefly captured Shirvan during theOttoman–Safavid War (1578–1590) and appointedÖzdemiroğlu Osman Pasha as its governor. In 1607,Shah Abbas I invaded Shirvan again and institutedQizilbash rule over the province. After several interstate wars, Shirvan was eventually captured by Nader Shah in 1734 to establish Safavid rule over the province again.[2][5]
| Date | Governor |
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| 1501 | Bahram Beg* |
| 1501-1502 | Gazi Beg* |
| 1502 | Sultan Mahmud* |
| 1502-1509 | Ibrahim II Shaykhshah* |
| 1509-1519 | Hossein Beg Laleh |
| 1519-1524 | Ibrahim II Shaykhshah* |
| 1523-1535 | Khalilullah II* |
| 1535-1538 | Shahrukh* |
| 1538-1547 | Alqas Mirza |
| 1538-1541 | Badr Khan Ustajlu |
| 1538-1543 | Ghazi Khan Tekkelu |
| 1543-1547 | Badr Khan Ustajlu |
| 1547-? | Ismail Mirza |
| 1547-1549 | Shahverdi Sultan |
| 1548-1550 | Burhan Ali*§ |
| 1549 | Mehrab Mirza*§ |
| 1549-1550 | Qorban Ali Mirza*§ |
| 1554 | Qasem Mirza*§ |
| 1549-1565 | Abdollah Khan Ustajlu |
| 1566 | Mostafa Beg |
| 1566 | Shah Beg Ali |
| 1567 | Farrokhzad Beg Qaradaghlu |
| 1567-1576 | Aras Khan Rumlu |
| 1577 | Abu Torab Soltan Ustajlu |
| 1577 | Kavus Mirza*§ |
| 1577 | Aras Soltan Khan Rumlu |
| 1578 | Abu Bakr Mirza*§ |
| 1578 | Panah Mohammad Khan Dhu'l-Qadr |
| 1578-? | Mohammad Khan Khalifeh Hajjilar Dhu'l-Qadr |
| 1579 | Suleiman Khan Ustajlu |
| 1580-1583 | Peykar Beg Khan Ziyadoghlu |
| 1583 | Khalifeh Ansar Qaradajlu |
| 1604–05 | Constantine I of Kakheti |
| 1583-1607 | Ottoman occupation |
| 1610-1624 | Yusuf Khan |
| 1624-1633 | Qazaq Khan Cherkes |
| 1643–1653 | Khosrow Soltan Armani |
| 1653 | Najafqoli Khan Cherkes |
| 1663–67 | Najafqoli Khan Cherkes |
| 1718 | Hasan-Ali Khan Daghestani |
A Jesuit missionary noted around 1690 that in Shirvan three languages were spoken, Turkish which is the most common one, corrupted Persian, and Armenian.
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