Yerevan Khanate
The Yerevan Khanate or Yerevan ( Pers. ایروان, Azerbaijan. İrəvan xanlığı, poor. Երևանի խանություն) was a Persian vassal state in the Caucasus , which existed from 1747 to 1828. The territory was on the territory of the present Central Armenian provinces of the Turkish province of Igdir and the districts sharur district and Sadarak in the Azerbaijani Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan .
history
After the fall of the Safavid dynasty in Persia, the Ottomans conquered the area of Yerevan on July 7, 1724 . In 1735 Nadir Shah was able to recapture it from Persia. In 1745 there was a Persian camp in the city. This was then attacked unsuccessfully by the Turks.
After Nadir Shah's death, the area became an independent khanate, which was nevertheless under Persian suzerainty.
On July 15, 1804 there was the first battle between Russian and Persian troops in the area, which ended in a draw. On October 19, Yerevan surrendered when the Russians under General Paskevich tried to attack. The khanate remained a Persian vassal for the time being.
Only in the peace of Turkmanschai was the khanate ceded to the Russian Empire and thus a Russian province.
Population and culture
At the time of the khanate, the population consisted largely of Persians who settled in the region around the capital Yerevan, Azerbaijanis and Kurds . The Shiite Islam was the most widespread religion, but there were also Sunni Kurds and Yazidis . Because of the deportation of Armenians by Abbas I of Persia in 1605 from the Ararat valley to Iran, the proportion of Armenians was only 20%.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Yerevan . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 5 . Altenburg 1858, p. 853-854 ( zeno.org ).
- ↑ a b Hewsen, Robert H. (2001). Armenia: A Historical Atlas. The University of Chicago Press, p. 168. ISBN 0-226-33228-4 .
- ↑ von Haxthausen, Baron (2000). Transcaucasia: Sketches of the Nations and Races between the Black Sea and the Caspian. Adamant Media Corporation, p. 252. ISBN 1-4021-8367-4 .