Zanjan Khanate
| Zanjan Khanate | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Zanjan | |||||||||
| Languages | Persian (official), Azerbaijani (Majority) | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam | |||||||||
| Government | Khanate | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Established | 1747 | ||||||||
| • | Independence from Afsharids | 1747 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1810 | ||||||||
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Zanjan Khanate was an 18th-19th century khanate based in Zanjan.
Zanjan Khanate was one of the Khanates of the Iranian Azerbaijan which became semi-independent from the Iranian mothercountry for more than a hundred years .
The list of Khans
- Zulfaqar Khan Afshar (1747-1780)
- Ali Khan Afshar (1780-1782)
- Abdullah Khan Afshar (1782-1797)
- Amanullah Khan Afshar (1797-1810)
«In Safavi times, Azerbaijan was applied to all the muslim-ruled khanates of the eastern Caucasian as well as to the area south of the Araz River as far as the Qezel Uzan River, the latter region being approximately the same as the modern Iranian ostans of East and West Azerbaijan.» [1]
References
- ↑ Atkin, Muriel Russia and Iran, 1780—1828. 2nd. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Press, 2008, ISBN 0-521-58336-5
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