Urmia Khanate | ||||||||||
Khanate | ||||||||||
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Capital | Urmia | |||||||||
Languages | Persian (official), Azerbaijani (Majority), Kurdish, Aramaic & Armenian | |||||||||
Religion | Islam | |||||||||
Government | Khanate | |||||||||
History | ||||||||||
• | Established | 1747 | ||||||||
• | Independence from Afsharids | 1747 | ||||||||
• | Disestablished | 1865 | ||||||||
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Urmia Khanate was an 18th-19th century khanate based in Urmia. The khanate is known as one of the Khanates of the Iranian Azerbaijan. Khanatae of Urmia was one of the Azerbaijani khanates, located in Azerbaijan which became for more than hundred years semi-independent from the Iranian mothercountry.