Shirvanshah: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

From the late 8th century, Shirvan (a region in eastern Caucasus) was under the rule of the members of the Arab family of Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani who was named governor of the region by the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Yazid's descendants, the Yazidids, would rule Shirvan as independent princes until the 14th century.