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badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0r%C9%99van_xanl%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1" title="İrəvan xanlığı – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="İrəvan xanlığı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%BA%DB%8C" title="ایروان خانلیغی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ایروان خانلیغی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B5_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Эрыванскае ханства – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Эрыванскае ханства" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanat_d%27Erevan" title="Kanat d&#039;Erevan – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Kanat d&#039;Erevan" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerevansk%C3%BD_chan%C3%A1t" title="Jerevanský chanát – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Jerevanský chanát" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanat_Jerewan" title="Khanat Jerewan – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Khanat Jerewan" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanato_de_Erev%C3%A1n" title="Kanato de Ereván – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Kanato de Ereván" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%A4anato_de_Erevano" title="Ĥanato de Erevano – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ĥanato de Erevano" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86" title="خانات ایروان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="خانات ایروان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanat_d%27Erevan" title="Khanat d&#039;Erevan – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Khanat d&#039;Erevan" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B5%D6%80%D6%87%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Երևանի խանություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Երևանի խանություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kekhanan_Iravan" title="Kekhanan Iravan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kekhanan Iravan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanato_di_Erivan" title="Khanato di Erivan – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Khanato di Erivan" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%AE%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D" title="ერევნის სახანო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ერევნის სახანო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaat_Jerevan" title="Kanaat Jerevan – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Kanaat Jerevan" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iravan_xonligi" title="Iravan xonligi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Iravan xonligi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="ایریوان خانیت – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ایریوان خانیت" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="د یریوان خانات – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="د یریوان خانات" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">1747–1828</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Erivan Khanate in 1820"><img alt="The Erivan Khanate in 1820" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg/250px-Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg/375px-Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg/500px-Map_of_the_Erivan_Khanate_in_1820.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3748" data-file-height="2188" /></a></span><div class="ib-country-map-caption">The Erivan Khanate in 1820</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Khanate" title="Khanate">Khanate</a><br />Under <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> suzerainty<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Common&#160;languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> (official), <a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_language" title="Azerbaijani language">Azerbaijani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data">&#160;</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;Established </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1747</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;Disestablished </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1828</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width:95%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border:0; padding-bottom:0"><div id="before-after"></div> <b>Preceded by</b></td> <td style="text-align:center;border:0; padding-bottom:0;"><b>Succeeded by</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; border:0;"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Nader_Shah_Flag.svg/20px-Nader_Shah_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Nader_Shah_Flag.svg/30px-Nader_Shah_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Nader_Shah_Flag.svg/40px-Nader_Shah_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Afsharid_Iran" title="Afsharid Iran">Afsharid Iran</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;border:0;"> <table style="width:92%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Oblast" title="Armenian Oblast">Armenian Oblast</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/20px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/40px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Erivan Khanate</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">خانات ایروان</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Persian" title="Romanization of Persian">romanized</a>:&#160;</small><span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Khānāt-e Iravān</i></span>), also known as <b><span title="Persian-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</span></span></b>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was a <a href="/wiki/Khanates_of_the_Caucasus" title="Khanates of the Caucasus">khanate</a> (i.e., province) that was established in <a 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It covered an area of roughly 19,500&#160;km<sup>2</sup>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and corresponded to most of present-day central <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/I%C4%9Fd%C4%B1r_Province" title="Iğdır Province">Iğdır Province</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kars_Province" title="Kars Province">Kars Province</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Ka%C4%9F%C4%B1zman" title="Kağızman">Kağızman</a> district in present-day <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sharur_District" title="Sharur District">Sharur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sadarak_District" title="Sadarak District">Sadarak</a> districts of the <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic" title="Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic">Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic</a> of present-day <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>. </p><p>Following the death of <a href="/wiki/Nader_Shah" title="Nader Shah">Nader Shah</a> in 1747, Iranian authority over the territories north of the Aras River was greatly weakened, and the Erivan Khanate became a tributary of King <a href="/wiki/Heraclius_II_of_Georgia" title="Heraclius II of Georgia">Heraclius II of Georgia</a>. This arrangement persisted after <a href="/wiki/Karim_Khan_Zand" title="Karim Khan Zand">Karim Khan Zand</a> nominally restored Iranian authority in the South Caucasus. The Georgian king attacked the khanate multiple times when the khan attempted to avoid paying tribute. Like some of the other khans of the Caucasus, <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Khan_Qajar_of_Erivan" title="Mohammad Khan Qajar of Erivan">Mohammad Khan</a> of Erivan sought to make contact with <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a> after 1783, when Georgia became a Russian protectorate. In 1794–95, <a href="/wiki/Agha_Mohammad_Khan_Qajar" title="Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar">Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar</a> campaigned to restore central authority in the region and received the submission of the khan of Erivan. </p><p>The provincial capital of <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Erivan</a> was a center of the Iranian defenses in the Caucasus during the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Iranian_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Iranian Wars">Russo-Iranian Wars</a> of the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result of the Iranian defeat in <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%931828)" title="Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)">the last Russo-Iranian War</a>, it was <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Erivan" title="Capture of Erivan">occupied</a> by Russian troops in 1827<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and then ceded to the Russian Empire in 1828 in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay" title="Treaty of Turkmenchay">Treaty of Turkmenchay</a>. Immediately following this, the territories of the former Erivan Khanate and the neighboring <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nakhchivan Khanate">Nakhchivan Khanate</a> were merged to form the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Oblast" title="Armenian Oblast">Armenian Oblast</a> of the Russian Empire. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administration">Administration</h3></div> <p>Under Iranian rule, the kings (<i><a href="/wiki/Shah" title="Shah">shahs</a></i>) appointed various governors to preside over their domains, thus creating an administrative center. These governors usually carried the title of "<a href="/wiki/Khan_(title)" title="Khan (title)">khan</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Beglarbeg" class="mw-redirect" title="Beglarbeg">beglarbeg</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as well as the title of <a href="/wiki/Sard%C4%81r" class="mw-redirect" title="Sardār">sardār</a> (“chief”). Prior to the establishment of the khanate (i.e., province),<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the Iranians had used the <a href="/wiki/Erivan_Province_(Safavid_Iran)" class="mw-redirect" title="Erivan Province (Safavid Iran)">Erivan Province</a> (also known as <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span>) to govern roughly the same area. Both the Safavid era province, as well as the administrative entity of the <a href="/wiki/Zand_dynasty" title="Zand dynasty">Zand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qajar_Iran" title="Qajar Iran">Qajar</a> era, were alternatively known by the name of <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Qajar era, members of the royal <a href="/wiki/Qajar_dynasty" title="Qajar dynasty">Qajar dynasty</a> were appointed as governors of the Erivan Khanate, until the Russian occupation in 1828.<sup id="cite_ref-Bournoutian_2002_p._215_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bournoutian_2002_p._215-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The heads of the provincial government of the Erivan Khanate were thus directly related to the central ruling dynasty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2004519–520_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2004519–520-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Administratively, the khanate was divided into fifteen administrative districts called <i><a href="/wiki/Mahalle" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahalle">maḥals</a></i> with Persian as its official language.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The local bureaucracy was modeled on that of the central government, located in <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bournoutian_1982_p._86_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bournoutian_1982_p._86-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Together with the <a href="/wiki/Nakchivan_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nakchivan Khanate">Nakchivan Khanate</a>, the area made up part of <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Armenia_(1502%E2%80%931828)" title="Iranian Armenia (1502–1828)">Iranian Armenia</a> (also known as Persian Armenia).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Erivan Khanate made up the bulk of Iranian Armenia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2,_10,_13_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2,_10,_13-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The remaining fringes of historic Armenia under Iranian rule were part of the <a href="/wiki/Karabakh_Khanate" title="Karabakh Khanate">Karabakh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ganja_Khanate" title="Ganja Khanate">Ganja Khanates</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kartli-Kakheti" title="Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti">Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Events_and_cession_to_Russia">Events and cession to Russia</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Nader_Shah" title="Nader Shah">Nader Shah</a> (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr>&#8201;1736–1747</span>) organized the region into four khanates: Erivan, <a href="/wiki/Nakchivan_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nakchivan Khanate">Nakhchivan</a> (formerly a part of <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199789_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199789-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Karabakh_Khanate" title="Karabakh Khanate">Karabakh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ganja_Khanate" title="Ganja Khanate">Ganja</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006214–215_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006214–215-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Nader's assassination in 1747 was followed by fifteen years of disorder in the region, which allowed some of the Turkic tribes in Iranian Armenia to reassert themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Qajar_(tribe)" title="Qajar (tribe)">Qajar tribe</a> was strengthened in Erivan, Ganja, and Nakhichevan, while the <a href="/wiki/Javanshir_clan" title="Javanshir clan">Javanshir tribe</a> took control of Karabakh.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Georgian king <a href="/wiki/Heraclius_II_of_Georgia" title="Heraclius II of Georgia">Heraclius II</a> and the Javanshir khan of Karabakh <a href="/wiki/Panah_Ali_Khan" title="Panah Ali Khan">Panah Ali</a> allied to divide Iranian Armenia into their own protectorates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates&#91;...&#93;_By_1762_he_&#91;Karim_Khan&#93;_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates[...]_By_1762_he_[Karim_Khan]_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1749, a vassal of <a href="/wiki/Azad_Khan_Afghan" title="Azad Khan Afghan">Azad Khan</a> named Mohammad Khan attacked the Erivan Khanate and besieged Erivan while plundering the surrounding territory. The khan of Erivan appealed to Heraclius of Kakheti and his father King <a href="/wiki/Teimuraz_II_of_Kakheti" title="Teimuraz II of Kakheti">Teimuraz of Kartli</a>, offering to become their tributary in exchange for their assistance. Heraclius and Teimuraz defeated Mohammad Khan and drove him out of the Erivan Khanate. After this, the khan of Erivan was obligated to pay a yearly tribute to the Georgian kings. The khan often tried to escape this obligation, and Heraclius campaigned against the Erivan Khanate several times to exact tribute.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971105–107_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971105–107-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1753–54, the Erivan Khanate suffered greatly from raiding by <a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgi</a> tribesman from the North Caucasus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971110_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971110-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 1762, <a href="/wiki/Karim_Khan_Zand" title="Karim Khan Zand">Karim Khan Zand</a> had succeeded in reuniting Iran and reestablishing Iranian suzerainty over the khans of the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates&#91;...&#93;_By_1762_he_&#91;Karim_Khan&#93;_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates[...]_By_1762_he_[Karim_Khan]_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Karim Khan took hostages from the khans' families to ensure their loyalty, but he did not meddle in Caucasian affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2001415–416_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2001415–416-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1765 and 1769, Heraclius II invaded the Erivan Khanate in response to <a href="/wiki/Hoseyn_Ali_Khan" title="Hoseyn Ali Khan">Hoseyn Ali Khan's</a> attempts to terminate payment of tribute. Both times, bloodshed was avoided through the mediation of the <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> Catholicos <a href="/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Yerevan" title="Simeon I of Yerevan">Simeon of Yerevan</a>, and Heraclius accepted the restoration of the khanate's tributary status.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971111_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971111-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Karim Khan's death in 1779 precipitated another power struggle in Iran, again leading to conflict between the rulers in the Caucasus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._92–93:_&quot;The_death_of_Karim_Khan_Zand_in_1779_once_again_left_Persia_adrift_among_rival_tribal_chiefs&#91;...&#93;_With_no_stable_government_in_Persia,_the_khans_had_begun_to_act_as_independent_rulers_vis-a-vis_Georgia_and_their_Armenian_subjects&quot;_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._92–93:_&quot;The_death_of_Karim_Khan_Zand_in_1779_once_again_left_Persia_adrift_among_rival_tribal_chiefs[...]_With_no_stable_government_in_Persia,_the_khans_had_begun_to_act_as_independent_rulers_vis-a-vis_Georgia_and_their_Armenian_subjects&quot;-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That year, Heraclius again invaded the Erivan Khanate, devastating the land and taking a large amount of booty and prisoners, although he was unable to capture <a href="/wiki/Erivan_Fortress" title="Erivan Fortress">Erivan Fortress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971113–117_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971113–117-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hoseyn Ali Khan died in 1783 and was succeeded by his son <a href="/wiki/Gholam_Ali-khan" title="Gholam Ali-khan">Gholam Ali</a>, who was assassinated soon after; he was succeeded by his younger brother <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Khan_Qajar_of_Erivan" title="Mohammad Khan Qajar of Erivan">Mohammad Khan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971122_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971122-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Like some of the other khans of the Caucasus, Mohammad Khan sought to make contact with <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russia</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Georgievsk" title="Treaty of Georgievsk">Treaty of Georgievsk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1794–95, <a href="/wiki/Agha_Mohammad_Khan_Qajar" title="Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar">Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar</a> campaigned to restore central authority in the region. He received the submission of the khanates and forcibly subjugated Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199793_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199793-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had Mohammad Khan arrested and appointed his own brother <a href="/wiki/Ali-Qoli_Khan_Qajar" title="Ali-Qoli Khan Qajar">Ali Qoli Khan</a> to the position, although Agha Mohammad Khan's successor <a href="/wiki/Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar" title="Fath-Ali Shah Qajar">Fath-Ali</a> (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr>&#8201;1797–1834</span>) reinstated Mohammad Khan after taking the throne.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the Qajar period, the city of Erivan was considered to be quite prosperous.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russians</a> annexed <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kartli-Kakheti" title="Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti">Kartli-Kakheti</a> and initiated the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1804%E2%80%931813)" title="Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)">Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813</a>, Erivan became, "once more", a center of the Iranian defenses in the Caucasus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style 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class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar,_struck_at_the_Erivan_(Iravan,_Yerevan)_mint_(reverse).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar%2C_struck_at_the_Erivan_%28Iravan%2C_Yerevan%29_mint_%28reverse%29.jpg/140px-Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar%2C_struck_at_the_Erivan_%28Iravan%2C_Yerevan%29_mint_%28reverse%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar%2C_struck_at_the_Erivan_%28Iravan%2C_Yerevan%29_mint_%28reverse%29.jpg/210px-Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar%2C_struck_at_the_Erivan_%28Iravan%2C_Yerevan%29_mint_%28reverse%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar%2C_struck_at_the_Erivan_%28Iravan%2C_Yerevan%29_mint_%28reverse%29.jpg/280px-Coin_of_Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar%2C_struck_at_the_Erivan_%28Iravan%2C_Yerevan%29_mint_%28reverse%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2471" data-file-height="2514" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Gold coin of <a href="/wiki/Fath-Ali_Shah_Qajar" title="Fath-Ali Shah Qajar">Fath-Ali Shah Qajar</a>, struck at the Erivan mint, dated 1820/1 (obverse to the left, reverse to the right)</div></div></div></div> <p>In 1804, Russian general <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Tsitsianov" title="Pavel Tsitsianov">Pavel Tsitsianov</a> <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Erivan_(1804)" title="Siege of Erivan (1804)">attacked</a> Erivan, but a "superior" Iranian army, under the command of crown prince <a href="/wiki/Abbas_Mirza" title="Abbas Mirza">Abbas Mirza</a>, repelled the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1807, the central Iranian government of King Fath-Ali Shah Qajar appointed <a href="/wiki/Hossein_Khan_Sardar" title="Hossein Khan Sardar">Hossein Khan Sardar</a> as the new governor (<i>khan</i>) of Erivan, and made him the commander-in-chief (hence, <i><a href="/wiki/Sardar" title="Sardar">sardar</a></i>) of the Iranian forces to the north of the river <a href="/wiki/Aras_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Aras River">Aras</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bournoutian_2002_p._215_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bournoutian_2002_p._215-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Hossein Khan Sardar was one of the most important individuals in the government of then incumbent king Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A capable administrator, his long tenure as governor is considered to be an era of prosperity, during which he made the khanate a model province.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His local bureaucracy, modeled on that of the central government in <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a>, was efficient, and restored the confidence of the local Armenians in the Iranian rule.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bournoutian_1982_p._86_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bournoutian_1982_p._86-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1808, the Russians, now led by general <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Gudovich" title="Ivan Gudovich">Ivan Gudovich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Erivan_(1808)" title="Siege of Erivan (1808)">attacked the city</a> once again; this attempt was repelled as well.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Gulistan" title="Treaty of Gulistan">Treaty of Gulistan</a> (1813), which ended the 1804–1813 war, Iran lost most of its Caucasian territories; Erivan and <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a> were now the main headquarters of the Iranian efforts to regain the territories lost to Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>About a decade later, in violation of the Treaty of Gulistan, the Russians invaded the Erivan Khanate.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This sparked the final bout of hostilities between the two: the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%931828)" title="Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)">Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828</a>. In the early stages of this war, the Iranians were successful in recovering many of the territories that were lost in 1813; however, the Russian offensive of 1827, in which the superior Russian artillery played a decisive role, resulted in the Iranians being defeated at <a href="/wiki/Abbasabad_(fortress)" title="Abbasabad (fortress)">Abbasabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sardar%27s_Fortress" class="mw-redirect" title="Sardar&#39;s Fortress">Sardarabad</a> as well Erivan.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Erivan was taken by the Russians on 2 October 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In February 1828, Iran was forced to sign the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay" title="Treaty of Turkmenchay">Treaty of Turkmenchay</a>, which resulted in the cession of the khanate (as well as the other remaining territories to the north of the <a href="/wiki/Aras_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Aras River">Aras River</a>) to the Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">fall of the Soviet Union</a>, the Aras River became and remained the border between Iran and <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Provincial_capital">Provincial capital</h2></div> <p>Erivan city was reportedly "quite prosperous" in the Qajar era.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It covered roughly one square mile, whereas its direct environs (including gardens) further extended some eighteen miles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The city itself had three <i><a href="/wiki/Mahalle" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahalle">mahals</a></i>, more than 1,700 houses, 850 stores, almost ten mosques, seven churches, ten baths, seven <a href="/wiki/Caravanserais" class="mw-redirect" title="Caravanserais">caravanserais</a>, five squares, as well as two <a href="/wiki/Bazaar" title="Bazaar">bazars</a> and two schools.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the governorship of Hossein Khan Sardar, Erivan's fortifications were reportedly the strongest in the entire country.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its enormous fortress, which was located on "high ground" and was surrounded by thick walls, as well as <a href="/wiki/Moats" class="mw-redirect" title="Moats">moats</a> and cannons, helped to prevent the Russian advance for some time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Of the city's two most prominent mosques, one was built in 1687 in the <a href="/wiki/Safavid_dynasty" title="Safavid dynasty">Safavid</a> period, whereas the largest mosque of the city, the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Yerevan" title="Blue Mosque, Yerevan">Blue Mosque</a>, was built in the 18th century after the establishment of the khanate, and is considered to be a prominent architectural remnant of the era.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The palace of the khan was situated nearby one of the mosques.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Hossein Khan Sardar's governorship, Erivan's population steadily rose.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Just before the Russian conquest, its population was approaching 20,000 inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In contrast, in 1897, some seventy years after the establishment of Russian rule, and with the Armenian resettlements, Erivan only had approximately 14,000 inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <p>Per article III of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay" title="Treaty of Turkmenchay">Treaty of Turkmenchay</a>, the Iranians had to give the tax records of the lost territories in the Caucasus to the Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, these records only represented the families that lived in these territories, as well as tax quotas (<i>būniche</i>), and thus were not an "accurate count" of the number of people that lived in these provinces, including Iranian Armenia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Russians therefore immediately conducted a thorough statistical account of the population of the Erivan Khanate, now renamed to the "<a href="/wiki/Armenian_Oblast" title="Armenian Oblast">Armenian Oblast</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Chopin" title="Ivan Chopin">Ivan Chopin</a> headed the survey team which gathered the administrative census (<span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kameral'noe Opisanie'</i></span>) for the newly established Russian administration in Erivan. Based on the Persian administrative records of the Erivan Khanate as well as interviews, the <i><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kameral'noe Opisanie'</i></span></i> is considered to be "the only accurate source for any statistical or ethnographical data" on the territories that comprised Iranian Armenia, on the situation before and immediately after the Russian conquest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Muslims (Persian, Turkic groups and Kurds) formed an absolute majority in Iranian Armenia, comprising some 80% of the population, whereas Christian Armenians formed some 20% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the <i><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kameral'noe Opisanie'</i></span></i>, the settled and semi-settled Muslim population numbered more than 74,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, there are flaws regarding this number, as it does not account for the settled and semi-settled Muslims that left immediately after the Iranian defeat.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example, basically the entire Persian ruling elite and the military officer apparatus, "most of whom resided in the administrative centers", migrated to mainland Iran after the defeat.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Furthermore, a number of the Turkic and Persian soldiers had perished in the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%931828)" title="Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)">1826–1828 war</a>, which lead to the Russian conquest of the Erivan and Nakchivan Khanates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to estimations, some 20,000 Muslims had left Iranian Armenia or were killed during the 1826–1828 war.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to professor of history <a href="/wiki/George_Bournoutian" title="George Bournoutian">George Bournoutian</a>, it can therefore be taken for granted that the combined Persian and Turkic (settled and semi-settled) population of Iranian Armenia amounted some 93,000, instead of 74,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The total Muslim population of Iranian Armenia (incl. semi-settled, nomadic, and settled), prior to the Russian invasion and conquest, amounted "roughly over" 117,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some 35,000 of these, were thus not present (i.e. emigration, killed during the war) after the Russians decisively arrived.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Demographic of the Erivan Khanate (1826)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Ethnic Group </th> <th>Count </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td>20,073 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a> </td> <td>25,237 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Persian elite/army<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td>10,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkic people">Turkic groups</a> (settled and semi-settled)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td>31,588 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkic people">Turkic groups</a> (nomads)<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td> <td>23,222 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td><b>110,120</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>After the Russian administration took hold of Iranian Armenia, the ethnic make-up shifted, and thus for the first time in more than four centuries, ethnic Armenians started to form a majority once again in one part of historic Armenia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some 35,000 Muslims of over 100,000 emigrated from the region, while some 57,000 Armenians from Iran and Turkey (see also; <a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1828%E2%80%931829)" title="Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)">Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829</a>) arrived after 1828.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011–13_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011–13-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Due to these new significant demographic shifts, in 1832, the number of Armenians had matched that of the Muslims.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Anyhow, it would be only after the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)" title="Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)">Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878</a>, which brought another influx of Turkish Armenians, that ethnic Armenians once again established a solid majority in Eastern Armenia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, the city of Erivan remained having a Muslim majority up to the twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Brockhaus_and_Efron_Encyclopedic_Dictionary" title="Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary">Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary</a></i>, published in the final few decades of the Russian Empire, Russians made up 2%, Armenians 48% and Aderbeijani Tatars<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>k<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 49% of the population of Erivan in the 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the traveler <a href="/wiki/H._F._B._Lynch" title="H. F. B. Lynch">H. F. B. Lynch</a>, the city of Erivan was about 50% Armenian and 50% Muslim in the early 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/H._F._B._Lynch" title="H. F. B. Lynch">H. F. B. Lynch</a> thought that some among the Muslims were Persians when he visited the city within the same decade.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Persians">Persians</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il,_Qajar_hokmran_(civil_administrator)_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan,_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il%2C_Qajar_hokmran_%28civil_administrator%29_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan%2C_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg/220px-Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il%2C_Qajar_hokmran_%28civil_administrator%29_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan%2C_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il%2C_Qajar_hokmran_%28civil_administrator%29_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan%2C_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg/330px-Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il%2C_Qajar_hokmran_%28civil_administrator%29_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan%2C_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il%2C_Qajar_hokmran_%28civil_administrator%29_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan%2C_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg/440px-Hajji_Mirza_Isma%27il%2C_Qajar_hokmran_%28civil_administrator%29_of_the_Khanate_of_Erivan%2C_on_horseback_in_a_landscape.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4100" data-file-height="5050" /></a><figcaption>Hajji Mirza Esmail, a <i>hokmran</i> ("civil administrator") of the Erivan Khanate, on horseback. Hajji Mirza Esmail was sent by Fath-Ali Shah to the Erivan Khanate alongside the governor <a href="/wiki/Hossein_Khan_Sardar" title="Hossein Khan Sardar">Hossein Khan Sardar</a>. After the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay" title="Treaty of Turkmenchay">Treaty of Turkmenchay</a> in 1828, he was forced to resign his post, evacuate Erivan and return to mainland Iran. Oil on tin panel, signed by <a href="/wiki/Aleksander_Or%C5%82owski" title="Aleksander Orłowski">Aleksander Orłowski</a>, dated 1819</figcaption></figure> <p>The Persians were the elite in the region, and were part of the settled population.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The term "Persians" in this specific matter refers to the ruling hierarchy of the khanate, and does not necessarily denote the ethnic composition of the group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There were thus ethnic "Persians" and "Turks" among the ruling "Persian" elite of the khanate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This ruling elite were primarily the members of the governors' household, his close associates, the officer corps, the members of the local Persian bureaucracy, and some of the prosperous merchants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Persian ruling elite was a minority among the Muslims in the khanate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 1826–1828 war, which led to the Russian conquest, a number of the Persian ruling elite was killed; all of the rest migrated to Iran proper after the Russians decisively gained control of the province.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>l<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkics">Turkics</h3></div> <p>The Turkics<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>m<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> were the largest group in the khanate, but they were composed of three branches; settled, semi-settled, and nomadic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Similar to the Persian ruling elite, a number of them had perished in the 1826–1828 war against the Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The principal settled Turkic groups in the khanate were the <a href="/wiki/Bayat_(tribe)" title="Bayat (tribe)">Bayat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kangarlu_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Kangarlu tribe">Kangarlu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ayrumlu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ayrumlu">Ayrumlu</a>, Ak Koyunlu, Qara Qoyunlu, <a href="/wiki/Qajars_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Qajars (tribe)">Qajars</a>, as well as the "Turkified Qazzaqs" (i.e., <a href="/wiki/Karapapakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Karapapakh">Karapapakh</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804,_15_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804,_15-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A large number of the Turkic groups, numbering some 35,000, were some sort of nomads.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Alike the Kurds, some of the Turkic groups had specific areas where they moved to for summer and winter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Turkic nomads were important to the local Persian governors for their animal husbandry, handicrafts and horses which they provided for the cavalry.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19805–6_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19805–6-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The settled Turkics made up a large percentage of the workers in the agricultural sector.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199250_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199250-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Together with the Kurds, the nomadic Turkic groups used about half the territory of the khanate for their pastoral way of life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199251_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199251-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There was rivalry between the leading Turkic groups.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Due to the nomadic nature of many of the Turkic groups, they were located in many of the districts. They were abundantly presented in the central and northern parts of the khanate, where they "controlled the marginal grazing lands".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There was a traditional sense of hostility between the Turkic nomads and the Kurds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253_72-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Karapapakh and the Ayrumlu were the largest Turkic nomad groups; most of them were resettled in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_(Iran)" title="Azerbaijan (Iran)">Azerbaijan</a> (historic Azerbaijan, also known as <i>Iranian Azerbaijan</i>) with the help of <a href="/wiki/Abbas_Mirza" title="Abbas Mirza">Abbas Mirza</a>, after 1828.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253–54_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253–54-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kurds">Kurds</h3></div> <p>Regarding the <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a>, the <i><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kameral'noe Opisanie'</i></span></i> lists more than 10,000 inhabitants (of various tribes), and notes that some 15,000 had migrated after the Russian annexation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The total Kurdish population (pre-war) would therefore amount over 25,000 individuals.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Kurds were nomadic by tradition, similar to a large number of the Turkic groups.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-5,_12_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-5,_12-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Together with the nomadic Turkic groups, the Kurds used about half the territory of the khanate for their pastoral way of life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199251_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199251-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Kurds were primarily of three religious affiliations; Sunni, Shia, and <a href="/wiki/Yezidism" class="mw-redirect" title="Yezidism">Yezidi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199254_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199254-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There was a traditional sense of hostility between the Kurds and the Turkic nomads.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253_72-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199253-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armenians">Armenians</h3></div> <p>Christians <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> formed a minority in the khanate, comprising some 20 percent of the population, and formed no majority in any of the <i><a href="/wiki/Mahallah" title="Mahallah">mahals</a></i> (districts).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>n<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The utter vast majority of the Armenians, some 80% of their total number, were located in the districts (<i>mahals</i>) of Kirk-Bulagh, Karbi-Basar, Surmalu, and Sardarabad.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As with other minorities in Western Asia, they lived close to their "religious and administrative centers".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There were also Armenians in the provincial capital of Erivan.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261_77-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There were reportedly no Armenians in the Sharur and Sa'dlu districts and only "very few" in Garni-Basar, Gökcha, Aparan, Talin, Sayyidli-Akhsakhli, and Vedi-Basar.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261_77-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199261-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many events had led to the demise of the <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> population from the region. Until the mid-fourteenth century, Armenians had constituted a majority in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Armenia" title="Eastern Armenia">Eastern Armenia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011,_13–14_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011,_13–14-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the close of the fourteenth century, after <a href="/wiki/Timur" title="Timur">Timur</a>'s campaigns, Islam had become the dominant faith, and Armenians became a minority in Eastern Armenia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011,_13–14_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011,_13–14-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Abbas_I_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbas I of Persia">Shah Abbas I</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Great_Surgun" title="Great Surgun">deportation of much of the population</a> from the Armenian Highlands in 1605 was one later event, when as many as 250,000 Armenians were removed from the region.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To repopulate the frontier region of his realm, <a href="/wiki/Abbas_II_of_Persia" title="Abbas II of Persia">Shah Abbas II</a> (1642–1666) permitted the Turkic Kangarlu tribe to return. Under <a href="/wiki/Nader_Shah" title="Nader Shah">Nader Shah</a> (r. 1736-1747), when the Armenians suffered excessive taxation and other penalties, many emigrated, particularly to India.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Even though both Muslims and Armenians practiced various professions, it was the Armenians who dominated the trade and professions in the khanate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thus, they were of major economic significance to the Iranian administration.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although the Armenians sympathised with the Christian Russians, they were indifferent to them as a whole; immediate concerns, both rural and urban Armenians, was limited to socio-economic "well-being".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199291–92_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199291–92-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As long as the living conditions in the khanate were considered to be appropriate, the majority of Armenians felt no urge to take any actions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199291–92_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199291–92-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An example of this can be seen in 1808; when the Russians <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Erivan_(1808)" title="Siege of Erivan (1808)">launched another siege</a> in that year, in a 2nd attempt to take the city from the Iranians, the Armenians displayed "general neutrality".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199283_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199283-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Partial_Armenian_autonomy">Partial Armenian autonomy</h4></div> <p>Armenians in the territory of the Khanate lived under the immediate jurisdiction of the <i><a href="/wiki/Melik" title="Melik">melik</a></i> of Erivan, a position held by members of the Melik-Aghamalyan family. The <i>melik</i> of Erivan had the sole right to govern the Armenians of the khanate with the authorization of the shah. The inception of the melikdom of Erivan appears only after the end of <a href="/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Safavid_War_(1623%E2%80%931639)" title="Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639)">the last Ottoman–Safavid War</a> in 1639 and seems to have been a part of an overall administrative reorganization in <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Armenia_(1502%E2%80%931828)" title="Iranian Armenia (1502–1828)">Iranian Armenia</a> after a long period of wars and invasions. The first known member of the family is a certain Melik Gilan but the first certain holder of the title of "melik of Erivan" was Melik Aghamal, and it may be from him that the house had taken its surname. One of his successors, Melik-Hakob-Jan, attended the coronation of Nader Shah in the <a href="/wiki/Mughan_plain" title="Mughan plain">Mughan plain</a> in 1736.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the melik of Erivan were a number of other meliks in the khanate, with each maḥall inhabited by Armenians having its own local melik. The meliks of Erivan themselves, especially the last, Melik Sahak II, were among the most important, influential and respected individuals in the khanate and both Christians and Muslims alike sought their advice, protection and intercession. Second in importance only to the khan himself, they alone among the Armenians of Erivan were allowed to wear the dress of an Iranian of rank. The melik of Erivan had full administrative, legislative and judicial authority over Armenians up to the sentence of the death penalty, which only the khan was allowed to impose. The melik exercised a military function as well, because he or his appointee commanded the Armenian infantry contingents in the khan's army. All the other meliks and village headmen (<span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">tanuters</i></span>) of the khanate were subordinate to the melik of Erivan and all the Armenian villages of the khanate were required to pay him an annual tax.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Khans">List of Khans</h2></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg/300px-The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg/450px-The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg/600px-The_Hall_of_Mirrors_in_the_Palace_of_the_Sardar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2898" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Palace of Erivan khans, early 19th-century painting</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Erivan_Khanate" title="Special:EditPage/Erivan Khanate">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2012</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>1747–48 <a href="/wiki/Mehdi-Khan_Qasemlu" title="Mehdi-Khan Qasemlu">Mehdi-Khan Qasemlu</a></li> <li>1748–50 Hasan Ali-khan</li> <li>1750–80 Hoseyn Ali Khan</li> <li>1752–55 <a href="/wiki/Khalil_Khan_Uzbek" title="Khalil Khan Uzbek">Khalil Khan</a></li> <li>1755–62 <a href="/wiki/Hasan_Ali_Khan_Qajar" title="Hasan Ali Khan Qajar">Hasan Ali Khan Qajar</a></li> <li>1762–83 <a href="/wiki/Hoseyn_Ali_Khan" title="Hoseyn Ali Khan">Hoseyn Ali Khan</a></li> <li>1783–84 <a href="/wiki/Gholam_Ali-khan" title="Gholam Ali-khan">Gholam Ali</a> (son of Hasan Ali)</li> <li>1784–1805 <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Khan_Qajar_of_Erivan" title="Mohammad Khan Qajar of Erivan">Mohammad Khan Qajar</a></li> <li>1805–06 <a href="/wiki/Mehdi_Qoli_Khan_Qajar" title="Mehdi Qoli Khan Qajar">Mehdi Qoli Khan Qajar</a></li> <li>1806–07 <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Khan_Moqaddam" title="Ahmad Khan Moqaddam">Ahmad Khan Moqaddam</a></li> <li>1807–28 <a href="/wiki/Hossein_Khan_Sardar" title="Hossein Khan Sardar">Hossein Qoli Khan Qajar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Azerbaijani_historiography">In Azerbaijani historiography</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Western_Azerbaijan_(political_concept)" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Azerbaijan (political concept)">Western Azerbaijan (political concept)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Historical_negationism#Azerbaijan" title="Historical negationism">Historical negationism §&#160;Azerbaijan</a></div> <p>From the mid-2000s, the concept of a "<a href="/wiki/Western_Azerbaijan_(political_concept)" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Azerbaijan (political concept)">Western Azerbaijan</a>", originally a colloquialism used by some Azerbaijani refugees to refer to the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian SSR">Armenian SSR</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, was merged into renewed interest of the <a href="/wiki/Khanates_of_the_Caucasus" title="Khanates of the Caucasus">Khanates of the Caucasus</a>, in, what the historian and political scientist Laurence Broers explains as "wide-ranging fetishisation" of the Erivan Khanate as a "historically Azerbaijani entity".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Azerbaijani historiography regards the Erivan Khanate as an "Azerbaijani state" which was populated by autochthonous Azerbaijani Turks, and its soil is sacralised, as Broers adds, "as the burial ground of semi-mythological figures from the Turkic pantheon".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the process of employing historical negationism, it has undergone the same type of transformation within Azerbaijani historiography like the historic entity of <a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Albania" title="Caucasian Albania">Caucasian Albania</a> before it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Within Azerbaijani historiography, the terms "Azerbaijani Turk" and "Muslim" are used interchangeably when dealing with the Erivan Khanate, even though contemporary demographic surveys differentiate "Muslims" into Persians, Shia and Sunni Kurds and Turkic tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Broers regards this phenomenon in Azerbaijan as being part of a "Wide Azerbaijanism", a geopolitical confection emerging "at the meeting point of two previously subdued geographies made relevant by both sovereignty and the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict" over <a href="/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict" title="Nagorno-Karabakh conflict">Nagorno-Karabakh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019116_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019116-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Broers, catalogues of "lost Azerbaijani heritage" portray an array of "Turkic palimpsest beneath almost every monument and religious site in Armenia – whether Christian or Muslim".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Additionally, from around 2007, standard maps of Azerbaijan started to show Turkic toponyms printed in red underneath the Armenian ones on the major part of Armenia which it shows.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In terms of rhetoric, as Broers narrates, the Azerbaijani palimpsest beneath Armenia "reaches into the future as a prospective territorial claim".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117_83-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019117-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Armenian capital of <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a> is particularly focused by this narrative; the <a href="/wiki/Erivan_Fortress" title="Erivan Fortress">Erivan Fortress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Sardar" title="Palace of Sardar">Sardar Palace</a>, which had been demolished by the Soviets during their building of the city, have become "widely disseminated symbols of lost Azerbaijani heritage recalling the fetishised contours of a severed body part".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBroers2019118_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBroers2019118-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Kadym_Irevani" title="Mirza Kadym Irevani">Mirza Kadym Irevani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sardar_Iravani" title="Sardar Iravani">Sardar Iravani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay" title="Treaty of Turkmenchay">Treaty of Turkmenchay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Armenia_(1502%E2%80%931828)" title="Iranian Armenia (1502–1828)">Iranian Armenia (1502–1828)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Armenia" title="Islam in Armenia">Islam in Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Azerbaijan" title="Islam in Azerbaijan">Islam in Azerbaijan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also spelled as "Iravan Khanate" or "Erevan Khanate"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The comparable administrative entity of the <a href="/wiki/Safavid_Iran" title="Safavid Iran">Safavid</a> era, the <a href="/wiki/Erivan_Province_(Safavid_Iran)" class="mw-redirect" title="Erivan Province (Safavid Iran)">Erivan Province</a>, was also known as <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The name <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span> (<span title="Persian-language text"><span lang="fa" dir="rtl">چخور سعد</span></span>) derives from the name of a 14th-century Turkic tribal leader, Amir Sa'd, whose followers were called <i>Sa'dlu</i> and settled in the plain of Surmalu and nearby areas in the territory of the future Erivan Khanate. Thus, the area where they settled was called <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span> (the first word is <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_language" title="Azerbaijani language">Azerbaijani</a> <span title="Azerbaijani-language text"><i lang="az">çuxur</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">pit, hole</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>), meaning 'Sa'd's pit/hole'<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or 'vale of Sa'd'.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19827_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19827-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The term initially indicated a much smaller area than the territory of the future province. The contemporary Armenian equivalent of this name was <span title="Armenian-language romanization"><i lang="hy-Latn">Sahata pos</i></span> 'Sa'd's pit' or <span title="Armenian-language romanization"><i lang="hy-Latn">Yerkirn Sahatu</i></span> 'Sa'd's land'. In 16-17th-century Persian sources, <span title="Persian-language romanization"><i lang="fa-Latn">Chokhur-e Sa'd</i></span> was poetically reinterpreted as meaning 'happy pit'.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ordubad" title="Ordubad">Ordubad</a> was added by the central government to the Nakhchivan Khanate in the early 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reasons behind this were: the large Muslim migration primarily to Iran proper, higher taxes, the rise of Tiflis and Baku as new commercial centers in the region, the "cessation of the war economy" that had been initiated by the Iranians, and, of course, the end of Erivan's strategic importance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There were also a handful of <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a>, some <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, as well as some other <a href="/wiki/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus" class="mw-redirect" title="Peoples of the Caucasus">peoples of the Caucasus</a>; they were not of any statistical significance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Number includes the "few <a href="/wiki/Lom_people" title="Lom people">Gypsies of Erevan</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The term "Persians" in this specific matter refers to the ruling hierarchy of the khanate, and does not necessarily denote the ethnic composition of the group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There were thus ethnic "Persians" and "Turks" among the ruling "Persian" elite of the khanate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mentioned as "Turko-tatars" or "Turks".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The khanate had a few Persian peasants, all of whom are included in this group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mentioned as "Turko-tatars" or "Turks".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The term "Tatars", employed by the Russians, referred to <a href="/wiki/Turkic_languages" title="Turkic languages">Turkish-speaking</a> Muslims (Shia and <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Transcaucasia" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcaucasia">Transcaucasia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BournoutianTatarMuslim_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BournoutianTatarMuslim-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Unlike Armenians and <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a>, the Tatars did not have their own alphabet and used the <a href="/wiki/Persian_alphabet" title="Persian alphabet">Perso-Arabic script</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BournoutianTatarMuslim_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BournoutianTatarMuslim-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After 1918 with the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic" title="Azerbaijan Democratic Republic">Azerbaijan Democratic Republic</a>, and "especially during the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> era", the Tatar group identified itself as "<a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijani</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-BournoutianTatarMuslim_60-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BournoutianTatarMuslim-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Prior to 1918 the word "<a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_(toponym)" title="Azerbaijan (toponym)">Azerbaijan</a>" exclusively referred to the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_(Iran)" title="Azerbaijan (Iran)">Iranian province of Azarbayjan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Indeed, in his 1840 review of the statistical data in the "Overview of Russian Domain in the Transcaucasus" published in 1837, in response to the listing of Persians as an ethnic group residing in the Armenian Oblast, Ivan Chopin notes that there were no "Persians" in the province and that the Muslim population there was of either <a href="/wiki/Turkics" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkics">Turkic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurdish</a> stock.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also variously referred to as "Turko-Tatars" or "Turks".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There is a chance that the Karbi-basar <i>mahal</i>, with the ecclesiastical center of <i>Uch-Kilisa</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Etchmiadzin" class="mw-redirect" title="Etchmiadzin">Etchmiadzin</a>") could have had an Armenian majority.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBournoutian2016" class="citation book cs1">Bournoutian, George A. (2016). <i>The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province prior to its Annexation by Russia</i>. Gibb Memorial Trust. p.&#160;xvii. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1909724808" title="Special:BookSources/978-1909724808"><bdi>978-1909724808</bdi></a>. <q>Serious historians and geographers agree that after the fall of the Safavids, and especially from the mid-eighteenth century, the territory of the South Caucasus was composed of the khanates of Ganja, Kuba, Shirvan, Baku, Talesh, Sheki, Karabagh, Nakhichivan and Yerevan, all of which were under Iranian suzerainty.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+1820+Russian+Survey+of+the+Khanate+of+Shirvan%3A+A+Primary+Source+on+the+Demography+and+Economy+of+an+Iranian+Province+prior+to+its+Annexation+by+Russia&amp;rft.pages=xvii&amp;rft.pub=Gibb+Memorial+Trust&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-1909724808&amp;rft.aulast=Bournoutian&amp;rft.aufirst=George+A.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-19"><sup><i><b>t</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-20"><sup><i><b>u</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-21"><sup><i><b>v</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-22"><sup><i><b>w</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998542–551_3-23"><sup><i><b>x</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998">Kettenhofen, Bournoutian &amp; Hewsen 1998</a>, pp.&#160;542–551.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFloor200886,_170_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFloor2008">Floor 2008</a>, pp.&#160;86, 170.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muriel Atkin. <i>Russia and Iran, 1780–1828</i> (U of Minnesota Press, 1980), p. 89; <i>"The new khan of Yerevan, <b>Hosein Qoli</b>, was <b>one of the most able men in Fath' Ali's government</b> and ruled Yerevan from 1807 until its conquest by the Russians in 1827."</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1992">Bournoutian 1992</a>, p.&#160;xxiii. "The term khanate refers to an area that was <b>governed by hereditary or appointed governors with the title of khan or beglerbegi who performed a military and/or administrative function for the central government</b>. By the nineteenth century, there were nine such khanates in Transcaucasia (...)"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, pp.&#160;1–2. "During the eighteenth century, Persian Armenia was composed of the provincial boundaries or Khanates (subdivided into Mahals) of Erevan and Nakhchivan (...)"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPapazian196025_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPapazian1960">Papazian 1960</a>, p.&#160;25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19827-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19827_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1982">Bournoutian 1982</a>, p.&#160;7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bournoutian_2002_p._215-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bournoutian_2002_p._215_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bournoutian_2002_p._215_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2006">Bournoutian 2006</a>, p.&#160;218. "<b>Iranians</b>, in order to save the rest of eastern Armenia, heavily subsidized the region <b>and appointed a capable governor, Hosein Qoli Khan, to administer it</b>."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2004519–520-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2004519–520_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2004">Bournoutian 2004</a>, pp.&#160;519–520.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSwietochowski2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Tadeusz_Swietochowski" title="Tadeusz Swietochowski">Swietochowski, Tadeusz</a> (2004). <i>Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.&#160;12. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521522458" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521522458"><bdi>978-0521522458</bdi></a>. <q>(...) and Persian continued to be the official language of the judiciary and the local administration [even after the abolishment of the khanates].</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Russian+Azerbaijan%2C+1905-1920%3A+The+Shaping+of+a+National+Identity+in+a+Muslim+Community&amp;rft.place=Cambridge&amp;rft.pages=12&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=978-0521522458&amp;rft.aulast=Swietochowski&amp;rft.aufirst=Tadeusz&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPavlovich1949" class="citation book cs1">Pavlovich, Petrushevsky Ilya (1949). <i>Essays on the history of feudal relations in Armenia and Azerbaijan in XVI - the beginning of XIX centuries</i>. LSU them. Zhdanov. p.&#160;7. <q>(...) The language of official acts not only in Iran proper and its fully dependant Khanates, but also in those Caucasian khanates that were semi-independent until the time of their accession to the Russian Empire, and even for some time after, <b>was New Persian (Farsi).</b> It played the role of the literary language of class feudal lords as well.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Essays+on+the+history+of+feudal+relations+in+Armenia+and+Azerbaijan+in+XVI+-+the+beginning+of+XIX+centuries&amp;rft.pages=7&amp;rft.pub=LSU+them.+Zhdanov&amp;rft.date=1949&amp;rft.aulast=Pavlovich&amp;rft.aufirst=Petrushevsky+Ilya&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKatouzian2003" class="citation book cs1">Katouzian, Homa (2003). <i>Iranian history and politics</i>. Routledge. p.&#160;128. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0415297547" title="Special:BookSources/978-0415297547"><bdi>978-0415297547</bdi></a>. <q>Indeed, since the formation of the Ghaznavids state in the tenth century until the fall of Qajars at the beginning of the twentieth century, most parts of the Iranian cultural regions were ruled by Turkic-speaking dynasties most of the time. At the same time, the official language was Persian, the court literature was in Persian, and most of the chancellors, ministers, and mandarins were Persian speakers of the highest learning and ability.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Iranian+history+and+politics&amp;rft.pages=128&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-0415297547&amp;rft.aulast=Katouzian&amp;rft.aufirst=Homa&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bournoutian_1982_p._86-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bournoutian_1982_p._86_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bournoutian_1982_p._86_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1982">Bournoutian 1982</a>, p.&#160;86. "The Khan Hosein Qoli Khan's <b>efficient administration</b> soon transformed the region. He <b>modeled his bureaucracy on that of the <u>central government</u></b>, dividing power between tribal and settled groups (...) In essence <b>the Erevan administration, like its counterpart in Tehran</b>, was organized into three branches (...)"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, pp.&#160;1–2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19802_19-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2,_10,_13-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–2,_10,_13_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, pp.&#160;1–2, 10, 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199789-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199789_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1997">Bournoutian 1997</a>, p.&#160;89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006214–215-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006214–215_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2006">Bournoutian 2006</a>, pp.&#160;214–215.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2006p._215:_&quot;Nader’s_assassination_in_1747_unleashed_a_fifteen-year_period_of_chaos_in_eastern_Armenia&quot;_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2006">Bournoutian 2006</a>, p. 215: "Nader’s assassination in 1747 unleashed a fifteen-year period of chaos in eastern Armenia".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._89–91:_&quot;Nader&#39;s_assassination_(1747)_once_again_caused_the_collapse_of_central_authority_and_ushered_in_a_struggle_for_succession_among_the_various_tribes_of_Persia._Nader&#39;s_death_also_allowed_some_of_the_Turkic_tribes_to_reassert_themselves_in_Eastern_Armenia._The_Qajars_took_control_of_their_fiefs_in_Ganja,_Erevan,_and_Nakhichevan,_while_the_Javanshir_tribe_emerged_once_more_in_Karabagh&quot;_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1997">Bournoutian 1997</a>, pp. 89–91: "Nader's assassination (1747) once again caused the collapse of central authority and ushered in a struggle for succession among the various tribes of Persia. Nader's death also allowed some of the Turkic tribes to reassert themselves in Eastern Armenia. The Qajars took control of their fiefs in Ganja, Erevan, and Nakhichevan, while the Javanshir tribe emerged once more in Karabagh".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates&#91;...&#93;_By_1762_he_&#91;Karim_Khan&#93;_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates[...]_By_1762_he_[Karim_Khan]_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997p._91:_&quot;The_Javanshirs_soon_allied_themselves_with_Erekle_II_(1762-1798),_the_ruler_of_Eastern_Georgia,_and_together_they_divided_Eastern_Armenia_into_their_respective_protectorates[...]_By_1762_he_[Karim_Khan]_managed_to_subdue_all_of_Persia_and_take_a_number_of_hostages_from_the_khans_of_Erevan,_Nakhichevan,_Ganja,_and_Karabagh._Thus,_until_his_death_in_1779,_Eastern_Armenia_and_the_rest_of_Transcaucasia_tentatively_remained_under_Persian_suzerainty&quot;_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1997">Bournoutian 1997</a>, p. 91: "The Javanshirs soon allied themselves with Erekle II (1762-1798), the ruler of Eastern Georgia, and together they divided Eastern Armenia into their respective protectorates[...] By 1762 he [Karim Khan] managed to subdue all of Persia and take a number of hostages from the khans of Erevan, Nakhichevan, Ganja, and Karabagh. Thus, until his death in 1779, Eastern Armenia and the rest of Transcaucasia tentatively remained under Persian suzerainty".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971105–107-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971105–107_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHakobyan1971">Hakobyan 1971</a>, pp.&#160;105–107.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971110-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971110_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHakobyan1971">Hakobyan 1971</a>, p.&#160;110.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2001415–416-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2001415–416_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2001">Bournoutian 2001</a>, pp.&#160;415–416.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971111-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971111_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHakobyan1971">Hakobyan 1971</a>, p.&#160;111.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._92–93:_&quot;The_death_of_Karim_Khan_Zand_in_1779_once_again_left_Persia_adrift_among_rival_tribal_chiefs&#91;...&#93;_With_no_stable_government_in_Persia,_the_khans_had_begun_to_act_as_independent_rulers_vis-a-vis_Georgia_and_their_Armenian_subjects&quot;-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian1997pp._92–93:_&quot;The_death_of_Karim_Khan_Zand_in_1779_once_again_left_Persia_adrift_among_rival_tribal_chiefs[...]_With_no_stable_government_in_Persia,_the_khans_had_begun_to_act_as_independent_rulers_vis-a-vis_Georgia_and_their_Armenian_subjects&quot;_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1997">Bournoutian 1997</a>, pp. 92–93: "The death of Karim Khan Zand in 1779 once again left Persia adrift among rival tribal chiefs[...] With no stable government in Persia, the khans had begun to act as independent rulers vis-a-vis Georgia and their Armenian subjects".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971113–117-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971113–117_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHakobyan1971">Hakobyan 1971</a>, pp.&#160;113–117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971122-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHakobyan1971122_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHakobyan1971">Hakobyan 1971</a>, p.&#160;122.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264_34-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian2021264_34-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2021">Bournoutian 2021</a>, p.&#160;264.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199793-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199793_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1997">Bournoutian 1997</a>, p.&#160;93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="#CITEREFBournoutian2004">Bournoutian 2004</a>, pp.&#160;519–520. "ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN SARDĀR-E IRAVĀNI; important <b>governor in the early Qajar period</b> (b. ca. 1742, d. 1831). (...) Requiring a strong and loyal governor to command the fortress of Erevan against the Russian advances during the first Russo-Persian War (1804-13), <b>the shah appointed Ḥosaynqoli as the commander-in-chief (sardār) of the Persian forces</b> north of the Araxes (Aras) River."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muriel Atkin. <i>Russia and Iran, 1780–1828</i> (U of Minnesota Press, 1980), p. 89; <i>"The khans of Yerevan and Nakhjavan were both removed in 1805 <b>by the shah</b> on the grounds of disloyalty. (...) The new khan of Yerevan, <b>Hosein Qoli</b>, was <b>one of the most able men in Fath' Ali's government</b> and ruled Yerevan from 1807 until its conquest by the Russians in 1827."</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCronin2013" class="citation book cs1">Cronin, Stephanie, ed. (2013). <i>Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800</i>. Routledge. p.&#160;63. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0415624336" title="Special:BookSources/978-0415624336"><bdi>978-0415624336</bdi></a>. <q>Perhaps the most important legacy of Yermolov was his intention from early on to prepare the ground for the conquest of the remaining khanates under Iranian rule and to make the River Aras the new border. (...) Another provocative action by Yermolov was the Russian occupation of the northern shore of Lake Gokcha (Sivan) in the Khanate of Iravan in 1825. A clear violation of Golestan, this action was the most significant provocation by the Russian side. The Lake Gokcha occupation clearly showed that it was Russia and not Iran which initiated hostilities and breached Golestan, and that Iran was left with no choice but to come up with a proper response.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Iranian-Russian+Encounters%3A+Empires+and+Revolutions+since+1800&amp;rft.pages=63&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=978-0415624336&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDowling2015" class="citation book cs1">Dowling, Timothy C., ed. (2015). <i>Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond</i>. ABC-CLIO. p.&#160;729. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1598849486" title="Special:BookSources/978-1598849486"><bdi>978-1598849486</bdi></a>. <q>In May 1826, Russia therefore occupied Mirak, in the Erivan khanate, in violation of the Treaty of Gulistan.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Russia+at+War%3A+From+the+Mongol+Conquest+to+Afghanistan%2C+Chechnya%2C+and+Beyond&amp;rft.pages=729&amp;rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=978-1598849486&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHambly1991" class="citation book cs1">Hambly, Gavin (1991). "The traditional Iranian city in the Qājār period". In Avery, Peter; Hambly, Gavin; Melville, Charles (eds.). <i>The Cambridge History of Iran (Vol. <b>7</b>)</i>. Cambridge University Press. p.&#160;552. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521200950" title="Special:BookSources/978-0521200950"><bdi>978-0521200950</bdi></a>. <q>Erivan was renowned for its strong natural defences and the impressive fortifications maintained by its governor between 1807 and 1827, the famous <i>sardār</i>, Husain Qulī Khan, which were said to be the strongest in the country.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=The+traditional+Iranian+city+in+the+Q%C4%81j%C4%81r+period&amp;rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+Iran+%28Vol.+7%29&amp;rft.pages=552&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=978-0521200950&amp;rft.aulast=Hambly&amp;rft.aufirst=Gavin&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKettenhofenBournoutianHewsen1998">Kettenhofen, Bournoutian &amp; Hewsen 1998</a>, pp.&#160;542–551. "(...) built in 1776 near the end of Persian rule."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249_42-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249_42-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199249_42-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1992">Bournoutian 1992</a>, p.&#160;49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199262_43-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1992">Bournoutian 1992</a>, p.&#160;62.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13_45-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13_45-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012–13_45-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, pp.&#160;12–13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198015_46-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19803_48-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19804_49-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198012_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263_51-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263_51-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian199263_51-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1992">Bournoutian 1992</a>, p.&#160;63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17_54-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17_54-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian19801–17_54-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, pp.&#160;1–17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014_57-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198014_57-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011–13-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198011–13_58-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, pp.&#160;11–13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013_59-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013_59-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBournoutian198013_59-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBournoutian1980">Bournoutian 1980</a>, p.&#160;13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BournoutianTatarMuslim-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BournoutianTatarMuslim_60-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BournoutianTatarMuslim_60-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BournoutianTatarMuslim_60-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBournoutian2018" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/George_Bournoutian" title="George Bournoutian">Bournoutian, George</a> (2018). <i>Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914</i>. Routledge. p.&#160;35 (note 25).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Armenia+and+Imperial+Decline%3A+The+Yerevan+Province%2C+1900-1914&amp;rft.pages=35+%28note+25%29&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2018&amp;rft.aulast=Bournoutian&amp;rft.aufirst=George&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBournoutian2018" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/George_Bournoutian" title="George Bournoutian">Bournoutian, George</a> (2018). <i>Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914</i>. Routledge. p.&#160;xiv.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Armenia+and+Imperial+Decline%3A+The+Yerevan+Province%2C+1900-1914&amp;rft.pages=xiv&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2018&amp;rft.aulast=Bournoutian&amp;rft.aufirst=George&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErivan+Khanate" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gatchina3000.ru/brockhaus-and-efron-encyclopedic-dictionary/119/119478.htm"><i>Erivan</i></a>. 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