Realm · approximate borders · 1747–1806

Baku Khanate

One of the khanates that became self-governing after Nader Shah's death (1747) under nominal Iranian suzerainty. Russia annexed the khanates or acquired them by treaty (Gulistan 1813, Turkmenchay 1828); several khans ruled on as Russian vassals for some years.

Baku and the Absheron peninsula, 1747–1806 (taken by Russia 1806). Sources: Wikipedia 'Baku Khanate'.

See Baku Khanate on the map in 1747

On the map: 1747–1806
Capital: Baku

Rulers named in the sources

Mirza Muhammad Khan I 1747–1768
Huseyngulu Khan 1792–1806

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.