Yerevan Province (Safavid Empire)
| Velāyat-e Iravān Chokhur-e Sa'd |
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| Province of the Safavid Empire | ||||||||
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| Capital | Iravan (Yerevan) | |||||||
| Languages | Persian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Armenian | |||||||
| Government | Velayat | |||||||
| History | ||||||||
| • | Establishment | 1502 | ||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1736 | ||||||
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| Today part of |
 Armenia Azerbaijan Iran Turkey
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The Yerevan Province (Persian: ایروان ولایت, translit. Velāyat-e Iravān) also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd (Persian: چخور سعد) was a velayat (province) of the Safavid Empire, centred on the territory of the present-day Republic of Armenia. Iravan (Yerevan) was the provincial capital and the seat of the Safavid governors.
At the end of the Safavid period, it had the following administrative jurisdictions; Bayazid, Maghazberd, Maku, Nakchivan, Sadarak, Shadidlu, Zaruzbil, and the tribal district of the Donbolis.
The Yerevan Province and the Karabagh province were the two administrative territories that made up Iranian Armenia.
The alternate name of the province, Chokhur-e Sa'd, had been in use since the fourteenth century. The name is derived from a certain Amir Sa'd, the leader of the Turkic Sa'dlu tribe, who had accompanied Timur from Central Asia. The Sa'dlu's had become prominent under their leader, Amir Sa'd, and settled in the Yerevan area, where Amir Sa'd became the governor of the area.Chokhur-e Sa'd literally means "Vale of Sa'd".
Historic Armenia, which included the territory of the Yerevan Province, made part of the Safavid Empire from its earliest days. In 1502, the first governor of the Yerevan Province was appointed by then incumbent king (shah) Ismail I (r. 1501-1524), and royal Safavid edicts make mention of the province as early as 1505 and 1506. As a result of the Peace of Amasya of 1555, the Safavids, then under king Tahmasp I (1524-1576) were forced to cede the western part of historic Armenia to the expanding Ottomans.
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