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Karabakh melikdoms
The Armenian autonomous duchies in Karabakh. Their origins and role.By the time of establishing the Karabakh khanate, there still existed 5 Armenian melikdoms (feudal possessions), ...
Establishment of the Karabakh khanate
The Karabakh khanate was one of 18 state formations, which emerged in Azerbaijan in the mid XVIII c., after long period of Iranian domination. The ...
Karabakh during the Safavid-Ottoman wars
Emergence of a powerful Safavid State in the eastern borders of the Ottoman Empire, naturally, worried the latter a lot. Besides clash of the political ...
Karabakh as independent khanate. Karabakh Meliks
In the mountainous part of the Karabakh khanate, there were small feudal entities – melikdoms: Khachen, Varanda, Talish (or Gulistan), Dizak and Jeraberd, which totally ...
Nadir shah’s reprisal against Karabakhis
In the first half of the XVIII c. the political situation in the Safavids State was still tense. In war with Afghans and Ottomans a ...