Nakhchivan Khanate
| Khanate of Nakhchivan | ||||||||||
| خانات نخجوان | ||||||||||
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 The Nakhichevan and Yerevan khanates, c.1800.
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| Capital | Nakhchivan | |||||||||
| Languages | Persian (official), | |||||||||
| Political structure | Khanate | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Established | 1747 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1828 | ||||||||
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The Nakhchivan Khanate (Persian: خانات نخجوان — Khānāt-e Nakhchevān) was a khanate that was established in Safavid Persia in 1747. The territory of the khanate corresponded to most of the present-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Vayots Dzor Province of present-day Armenia. It was named after its chief settlement, the town of Nakhchivan.
Initially the territory of Nakhchivan was part of the Erivan Khanate, but later came to be ruled by a separate khan. Shortly after the capture of Yerevan in 1604, Shah Abbas I appointed the first governor of Nakhichevan: Maqsud Sultan, a leader of a Turkic tribe named Kangarlu, who were described by J. M. Jouannin as “a small tribe established in Persian Armenia on the shores of the Aras". Later that year, as Ottoman forces threatened the area during the Ottoman-Safavid War of 1603-1618, Shah Abbas ordered Maqsud Sultan to evacuate the entire population of the Nakhchivan region (including the Armenians of Jolfa, who, in the following year, were transplanted to Isfahan) to Qaraja Dag (Arasbaran) and Dezmar. Persian rule was interrupted by Ottoman occupation between 1635-1636 and 1722-1736. It officially became a full functioning khanate during the Afsharid Dynasty.
During the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813, in 1808 Russian forces under general Gudovich briefly occupied Nakhchivan, but as a result of the Treaty of Gulistan it was returned to Persian control.
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