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Name: ganja

Type: Cluster

Start: 1748 AD

End: 1805 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Ganja Khanate (Persia)
  • Ganja Khanate (Russia)
  • Establishment


  • January 1748: The Ganja Khanate (Persia) formed as a result of the weakening of the central power in Persia after the assassination of Afsharid ruler Nadir Shah.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Adel Shah


    Expansion during the rule of Adel Shah of Afsharid Iran.


    2. Russo-Persian Wars


    Were a series of wars between Persia and Russia in the period 1651-1828.

    2.1.Persian Expedition of 1796

    Was a Russian military campaign in Persia.

  • July 1796: In June, Russian General Zubov's troops took most of northern Azerbaijan without resistance, including the Baku, Shirvan, and Ganja khanates.
  • January 1797: After Russian empress Catherine the Great died that month and Paul succeeded her on the throne, the Russian army under general Valerian Zubov was recalled from Persia.

  • 2.2.Russo-Persian War (1804-13)

    Was a war between the Russian Empire and Qajar Persia over territorial disputes in the Caucasus.

  • January 1804: In 1803, the newly appointed commander of Russian forces in the Caucasus, Paul Tsitsianov, attacked Ganja and captured its citadel.
  • July 1805: The Persians occupied the Askeran Fortress at the mouth of a valley that leads from the plain southwest to Shusha, the capital of Karabakh.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1806: In 1805 the Russian imperial government officially abolished the khanate and the military district of Elisabethpol was created.
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