Lankaran Khanate
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Persian: Khānāt-e Talesh Talysh: Tolshi hanәti |
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 Khanate of Talysh in the Map of Caucasus with the borders as of 1801-1813
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| Capital | Lenkaran | |||||||||
| Languages | Persian (official),Talysh | |||||||||
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| • | Established | 1747 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1826 | ||||||||
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The Talysh Khanate (Persian: خانات تالش — Khānāt-e Talesh, Azerbaijani: Talış xanlığı, Talysh: Tolshi hanəti, also known as the Lenkaran Khanate) was a khanate of Iranian origin that was established in Persia and existed from the middle of the 18th century till the beginning of the 19th century, located in the south-west coast of the Caspian Sea. It comprised the southeastern part of the modern day Republic of Azerbaijan and the eastern tip of north-western Iran. The capital of the Khanate was its chief city, Lenkaran. Its population mainly consisted of Azerbaijanis and Talysh people.
As a result of the Persian defeat in the Russo-Persian War of 1826-28, the khanate was dissolved and absorbed by the Russian Empire.
According to Mirza Ahmad Mirza oglu Khudaverdi, the founder of the Talysh Khanate, Seyyid Abbas, his ancestors were members of the Safavid dynasty, who had moved into the Talish region during the 1720s during a turbulent period in Iranian history. When Seyyid Abbas died in 1747 he was succeeded by his son Jamaladdin, often remembered as Gara Khan (the 'Black King'), because of his dark skin. Because of his good service to Nader Shah, Nader officially awarded him the hereditary title of khan. Gara Khan was pro-Russian in his foreign policy which upset the rulers of neighboring khanates notably Hidayat Khan of Gilan. In 1768 Hidayat Khan attacked the Talysh khanate. Seeing aid against the superior enemy, Gara Khan send his brother Karbalayi Sultan to Fath Ali Khan, ruler of the Quba Khanate resulting in an alliance between Quba and Lenkaran. By 1785 the territory of the Talysh khanate had formally become a dependency of that much stronger Quba Khanate together with certain other Azerbaijani khanates. However, in 1789 following Fath Ali Khan's death, the Talysh Khanate regained its independence under Mir Mustafa, the son of Gara Khan who had himself died in 1786.
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