Shaki Khanate
Shaki Khanate | |||||||||
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| 1743–1819 | |||||||||
Banner of Selim Khan, captured by Russian forces on 22 October, 1806 during the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) | |||||||||
| Status | Khanate Under Iranian suzerainty (1743–1813) Under Russian suzerainty (1813–1822) | ||||||||
| Capital | Shaki (1743–1772) Nukha (1772–1819) | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (administration, judiciary, and literature) Arabic (islamic studies) Azerbaijani (locally) Lezgian (locally) Armenian (locally) | ||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||
• 1743–1755 | Haji Chalabi Khan (first) | ||||||||
• 1814–1819 | Ismail Khan Donboli (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1743 | ||||||||
| 1813 | |||||||||
• Abolished by the Russian Empire | 1819 | ||||||||
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The Shaki Khanate (also spelled Shakki; Persian: خانات شکی, romanized: Khānāt-e Shakkī) was a khanate under Iranian and later Russian suzerainty, which controlled the town of Shaki and its surroundings, now located in present-day Azerbaijan.