Baku Khanate

Baku Khanate
خانات باکو
1747–1806
Baku Khanate and its borders 1806.
Baku Khanate and its borders 1806.
StatusKhanate
Under Iranian suzerainty[1]
CapitalBaku
Common languagesPersian (official, literature)[2][3][4]
Tat language (primary)[5][6]
Religion
Shia Islam
Khan 
• 1747–1768
Mirza Muhammad Khan I (first)
• 1792–1806
Husayn Quli Khan (last)
History 
• Established
1747
• Disestablished
1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Afsharid Iran
Shemakha Governorate
Today part ofAzerbaijan

The Baku Khanate (Persian: خانات باکو, romanizedKhānāt-e Baku), was a khanate under Iranian suzerainty, which controlled the city of Baku and its surroundings from 1747 to 1806.

  1. ^ Bournoutian 2016a, p. xvii.
  2. ^ Bournoutian 1994, p. x.
  3. ^ Swietochowski, Tadeusz (2004). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0521522458. (...) and Persian continued to be the official language of the judiciary and the local administration [even after the abolishment of the khanates].
  4. ^ Pavlovich, Petrushevsky Ilya (1949). Essays on the history of feudal relations in Armenia and Azerbaijan in XVI - the beginning of XIX centuries. LSU them. Zhdanov. p. 7. (...) The language of official acts not only in Iran proper and its fully dependent 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, was New Persian (Farsi). It played the role of the literary language of class feudal lords as well.
  5. ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 9.
  6. ^ Tonoyan 2019, pp. 368–369.

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