Erivan Khanate
The Erivan Khanate (Persian: خانات ایروان, romanized: Xānāt-e Iravān; Armenian: Երեւանի խանութիւն, romanized: Yerevani xanut'iwn; Azerbaijani: ایروان خانلیغی, romanized: İrəvan xanlığı), also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd, was a khanate (i.e., province) that was established in Afsharid Iran in the 18th century. It covered an area of roughly 19,500 km2, and corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, the Iğdır Province and the Kars Province's Kağızman district in present-day Turkey and the Sharur and Sadarak districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of present-day Azerbaijan.
Erivan Khanate خانات ایروان Xānāt-e Iravān | |||||||||
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| 1747–1828 | |||||||||
Erivan Khanate c. 1800. | |||||||||
| Status | Khanate Under Iranian suzerainty | ||||||||
| Capital | Yerevan | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (official), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1747 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1828 | ||||||||
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The provincial capital of Erivan was a center of the Iranian defenses in the Caucasus during the Russo-Iranian Wars of the 19th century. As a result of the Iranian defeat in the last Russo-Iranian War, it was occupied by Russian troops in 1827 and then ceded to the Russian Empire in 1828 in accordance with the Treaty of Turkmenchay. Immediately following this, the territories of the former Erivan Khanate and the neighboring Nakhchivan Khanate were merged to form the Armenian Oblast of the Russian Empire.