The Shirvan province () was a province founded by the Safavid Empire on the territory of modern Azerbaijan and Russia (Dagestan) between 1501 and 1736 with its capital in the town of Shamakhi.
The province had six administrative jurisdictions; Alpa'ur, Arash-Shaki, Baku, Chemeshgazak-Agdash, Derbent (Darband), Quba-Qolhan, and Saliyan. The capital of Shamakhi had a separate governor, but is not mentioned by the then contemporary historians and geographers to have formed a separate administrative jurisdiction.
Control over Shirvan was firmly held by the Safavids from the time of the subjugation of Shirvan (except for several brief Ottoman intermissions) when eventually the Afsharid ruler of Iran, Nader Shah established firm rule over the area until the area. After his death, the area was divided into various subordinate various khanates, before they were conquered by the Russian Empire from Qajar Iran in the course of the 19th century.
History Having ended the rule of the Shirvanshahs in 1538, Tahmasp I established Shirvan as an administrative unit of the empire. At the end of the 16th century, the Ottoman General Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha briefly captured Shirvan during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590) and appointed Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha as its governor. In 1607, Shah Abbas I invaded Shirvan again and instituted Qizilbash rule over the province. After several interstate wars, Shirvan was eventually captured by Nader Shah in 1734 to establish Safavid rule over the province again.
List of governors
Date Governor1501 Bahram Beg*1501-1502 Gazi Beg*1502 Sultan Mahmud*1502-1509 Ibrahim II Shaykhshah*1509-1519 Hossein Beg Laleh1519-1524 Ibrahim II Shaykhshah*1523-1535 Khalilullah II*1535-1538 Shahrukh*1538-1547 Alqas Mirza1538-1541 Badr Khan Ustajlu1538-1543 Ghazi Khan Tekkelu1543-1547 Badr Khan Ustajlu1547-? Ismail Mirza1547-1549 Shahverdi Sultan1548-1550 Burhan Ali*§1549 Mehrab Mirza*§1549-1550 Qorban Ali Mirza*§1554 Qasem Mirza*§1549-1565 Abdollah Khan Ustajlu1566 Mostafa Beg1566 Shah Beg Ali1567 Farrokhzad Beg Qaradaghlu1567-1576 Aras Khan Rumlu1577 Abu Torab Soltan Ustajlu1577 Kavus Mirza*§1577 Aras Soltan Khan Rumlu1578 Abu Bakr Mirza*§1578 Panah Mohammad Khan Dhu'l-Qadr1578-? Mohammad Khan Khalifeh Hajjilar Dhu'l-Qadr1579 Suleiman Khan Ustajlu1580-1583 Peykar Beg Khan Ziyadoghlu1583 Khalifeh Ansar Qaradajlu1604–05 Constantine I of Kakheti 1583-1607 Ottoman occupation1610-1624 Yusuf Khan1624-1633 Qazaq Khan Cherkes1643–1653 Khosrow Soltan Armani 1653 Najafqoli Khan Cherkes 1663–67 Najafqoli Khan Cherkes1718 Hasan-Ali Khan Daghestani
See also Shirvan Shirvan (city) Shirvan, Iran
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