Baku Khanate was Persian ruled
KhanateKhanate or Chanat is a Turco-Mongolian-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish the word used is hanlık, and in modern Azeri of the republic of Azerbaijan, xanlıq. In Mongolian the word khanlig is used, as in "Khereidiin Khanlig" meaning the Khanate of...
(
principalityA principality is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince....
) on the territory of modern day
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan , formally the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south...
from Safavid dynasty to 1806. Baku was one of Khanate (principalities) which arose during the domination of Iran. During the period of Iranian domination, head of principality was a Khan. Although, the khan could act within certain independence, he was vassal of the Iranian
shahShah is a Persian term for a king that has been adopted in many other languages.-Word history:"Shāh" was the title of Iranian kings including the Achaemenid dynasty which unified Persia and created a vast intercontinental empire...
(King).
It was founded by Dargah Quli Khan of
AfsharAfshar is a district of Kabul, Afghanistan. Most of its population were of the Hazara ethnic group.One of the twenty-six fierce battles which were fought against Hazaras by the forces of Shora-e-Nezar, Abdur Rasool Sayyaf resulted to the massacre of more than 900 civilian Hazaras in Afshar on...
tribe, whose
KizilbashQizilbash, Qazilbash or Kizilbash is a name given to a wide variety of Shī‘ī militant groups that flourished in Anatolia and Kurdistan from the late 13th century onwards, and later helped to found the Safavid dynasty of Iran...
ancestors were granted lands near
BakuBaku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all the Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City...
in 1592.
Baku Khanate was Persian ruled
KhanateKhanate or Chanat is a Turco-Mongolian-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish the word used is hanlık, and in modern Azeri of the republic of Azerbaijan, xanlıq. In Mongolian the word khanlig is used, as in "Khereidiin Khanlig" meaning the Khanate of...
(
principalityA principality is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince....
) on the territory of modern day
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan , formally the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south...
from Safavid dynasty to 1806. Baku was one of Khanate (principalities) which arose during the domination of Iran. During the period of Iranian domination, head of principality was a Khan. Although, the khan could act within certain independence, he was vassal of the Iranian
shahShah is a Persian term for a king that has been adopted in many other languages.-Word history:"Shāh" was the title of Iranian kings including the Achaemenid dynasty which unified Persia and created a vast intercontinental empire...
(King).
It was founded by Dargah Quli Khan of
AfsharAfshar is a district of Kabul, Afghanistan. Most of its population were of the Hazara ethnic group.One of the twenty-six fierce battles which were fought against Hazaras by the forces of Shora-e-Nezar, Abdur Rasool Sayyaf resulted to the massacre of more than 900 civilian Hazaras in Afshar on...
tribe, whose
KizilbashQizilbash, Qazilbash or Kizilbash is a name given to a wide variety of Shī‘ī militant groups that flourished in Anatolia and Kurdistan from the late 13th century onwards, and later helped to found the Safavid dynasty of Iran...
ancestors were granted lands near
BakuBaku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all the Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City...
in 1592. Khanate was independent during the reign of his son Mirza Muhammad Khan, later the khanate became a dependency of a stronger khanate of
QubaThe Quba Khanate was an independent principality on the territory of modern day Azerbaijan from 1747-1806. The Quba Khanate was founded as a feudal hold around 1680 as a result of a land grant to the Saytaq family, who were related to both the Qajar dynasty and the Utsmi of Tarki in Dagestan and...
. Feudal infighting in the 1790s resulted in Husayn Quli Khan taking the power away from Russian-leaning brother, Muhammed Quli Khan (father of a writer Abbasqulu Bakikhanov).
Russian forces tried to besiege Baku during third
Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)The 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, began like many wars as a territorial dispute. The Persian king, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, wanted to consolidate the northernmost reaches of his Qajar dynasty by securing land near the Caspian Sea's...
(1804-1813). They were led by general
Pavel TsitsianovPavel Dmitriyevich Tsitsianov was the Georgian Imperial Russian military commander and infantry general from 1804. A member of the noble Georgian family Tsitsishvili , Tsitsianov participated in suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising and in the Russo-Persian War . In 1802 he became the head of the...
, who was assassinated in February 1806, near the city gates. Baku was finally occupied by Russian forces led by general
BulgakovBulgakov is a common Russian family name and may refer to:*Gediminid family of Princes Bulgakov*Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bulgakov, Soviet politician who served as the USSR Minister of Education from 1978 to 1983*Aleksandr Viktorovich Bulgakov Bulgakov is a common Russian family name and may...
in September 1806, and Husayn Quli Khan was forced into exile.
Khans:
- 172?-1728 Dargah Quli Khan
- 1747-1768 Mirza Muhammad Khan
- 1768 -1770 Fath `Ali Khan
- 1770-1772 Abd Allah Beg
- 1772-1783 Malik Muhammad Khan
- 1784-1791 Mirza Muhammad Khan
- 1791-1792 Muhammad Quli Khan
- 1792-1806 Husayn Quli Khan