Quba Khanate

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Quba Khanate
خانات قبه
1747–1806
Map of Quba Khanate in 1806 (according to a 1902 Russian map)
Map of Quba Khanate in 1806 (according to a 1902 Russian map)
StatusKhanate
Under Iranian suzerainty[1]
CapitalQuba
(c. 1747–1806)
Common languagesPersian (official)[2][3] Azerbaijani
Lezgian
Tat
History 
• Established
1747
• Disestablished
1806
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Safavid Iran
Russian Empire
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The Quba Khanate (also spelled Qobbeh; Persian: خانات قبه, romanized: Khānāt-e Qobbeh) was one of the most significant semi-independent khanates that existed from 1747 to 1806, under Iranian suzerainty.[4][5] It bordered the Caspian Sea to the east, Derbent Khanate to the north, Shaki Khanate to the west, and Baku and Shirvan Khanates to the south. In 1755 it captured Salyan from the Karabakh Khanate.[6]

History

The khans of Quba were from the Qeytaq tribe, which was divided into two branches, the Majales and the Yengikend.

Shah Soleiman (r. 1666–1694) in the second half of the 1680s.[7]

The khanate achieved its greatest prominence under

Fath-Ali Khan, whose governorship lasted from 1758 to 1789. He seized Derbent, and divided Shirvan with Hosein Khan of Shaki.[12]

After Fath Ali Khan's death, the khanate's influence declined. As a result of

Shamakha Governorate by 1846.[13]

Population

The Quba Khanate was mainly populated by Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis) and Tats. It was also populated by Armenians, Lezgins and Mountain Jews.[14]

Khans

The khans of the Quba khanate were the following;[15]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1909724808
    . 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.
  2. 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].
  3. ^ 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 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, was New Persian. It played the role of the literary language of class feudal lords as well.
  4. ^ "...khanates of Sheki, Karabagh, and Kuba became the most powerful" Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920 – The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community, p. 17. Cambridge University Press
  5. ISBN 978-1909724808
    . 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, Nakhichevan and Yerevan, all of which were under Iranian suzerainty.
  6. ISBN 978-90-04-44516-1
    .
  7. ^ a b Bournoutian 2021, p. 259.
  8. ^ Floor 2010, p. 366.
  9. ^ Floor 2010, p. 367.
  10. ^ Floor 2010, p. 366 (note 121).
  11. ^ Minorsky 1970, p. 449.
  12. ^ Bournoutian 2021, p. 260.
  13. ^ Literature: Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin. Travels through Northern Persia 1770-1774 translated and annotated by Willem Floor (Washington DC, MAGE, 2007); Bakikhanov, The Heavenly Rose-Garden. A History of Shirvan & Daghestan translated and annotated by Willem Floor & Hasan Javadi(Washington DC: MAGE, 2010); Willem Floor, “Who are the Shamkhal and the Usmi?” ZDMG 160/2 (2010), pp. 341–81
  14. ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 9–10.
  15. ^ Bournoutian 2021, pp. 146, 259–261.

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