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Karabakh Khanate
1748–1822
Political map of the eastern part of the Southern Caucasus between 1795–1801
Political map of the eastern part of the Southern Caucasus between 1795–1801
StatusKhanate
Under Iranian suzerainty[1]
Capital
Common languagesPersian (official,[2][3] literature[4])
Azerbaijani (locally)
Armenian (locally)
Khan 
• 1748–1762
Panah Ali Khan (first)
• 1762–1806
Ibrahim Khalil Khan (second)
• 1806–1822
Mehdi Qoli Khan (third and last)
History 
• Established
1748
1813
• Abolished by the Russsian Empire
1822
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Safavid Karabakh
Dizak
Elisabethpol Governorate
Today part of

The Karabakh Khanate (also spelled Qarabagh; Persian: خانات قره‌باغ) was a khanate under Iranian and later Russian suzerainty, which controlled the historical region of Karabakh, now divided between modern-day Armenia and Azerbaijan.

  1. ^ Bournoutian 2016a, p. xvii.
  2. ^ 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].
  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 (Farsi). It played the role of the literary language of class feudal lords as well.
  4. ^ Bournoutian 1994, p. x.