Ahmad of Shirvan information

Ahmad of Shirvan (Arabic: احمد) was the eighth Shah of Shirvan. He was born to Muhammad III while he was still governor of Layzan and had a younger brother...

Seyyed Ahmad Hosseini Khorasani (Persian: سید احمد حسینی خراسانی) is an Iranian Twelver Shia ayatollah who was born in 1959 Fajr-Abad (Shirvan).He is...

throne of Shirvan c. November 991. Yazid on the other hand, had to deal with Abd al-Barr b. Anbasah, former ruler of Qabala who used death of Muhammad...

941 – May 942) Ahmad of Shirvan (May 942 – September 953) Khashram Ahmad b. Munabbih (September 953 – March 954) — King of Lakz Ahmad (3rd time, March...

the ruler of Shirvan, and appointed his son Ahmad as the ruler of Layzan, while his other son Haytham ibn Muhammad was appointed as the ruler of Tabarsaran...

–1025) Ahmad, Ostikan (c. 811-812) The Mazyadids were succeeded by Kasranids which is regarded as the start of the cultural Persianization of Shirvan. Minorsky...

village in Shirvan and Chardaval County Baraftab-e Chalab Zard, a village in Shirvan and Chardaval County Baraftab-e Larini, a village in Shirvan and Chardaval...

was a son of Kayqubad, and brother of Kavus I, and father of Ibrahim I of Shirvan and Bahlul of Shirvan. He was probably made governor of Derbent during...

soundly defeated at Baku; many prominent commanders of Shirvan were killed, such as one of the nobles Ahmad ibn Khasskin. Manuchihr then had the Araxes river...

Ahmad Khan of Quba (1769–1791) was a Khan of Quba and a successor of Fatali Khan who managed to dominate Derbent, Baku, Talysh and Shirvan Khanates, as...

Shaykh Uways Jalayir campaigned against the Shirvan Shah Kai-Ka’us, but a revolt begun by the governor of Baghdad, Khwaja Mirjan, forced him to return...

resulted from Yazid ibn Ahmad's union with a princess of an ancient local dynasty. In 1167, Akhsitan I of Shirvan asked the King of Georgia George III to...

The Shirvanshahs (Arabic/Persian: شروانشاه) were the rulers of Shirvan (in present-day Azerbaijan) from 861 to 1538. The first ruling line were the Yazidids...

was one of Ahad Agha Shirvani's three sons, and grandson of Moustafa Khan Shirvani, governor of the Shirvan Khanate), a descendant of the Shirvan Shah who...

to Fatali khan of Quba by 1760s in order to invade the Shirvan Khanate. In order to start the negotiation, Muhammad Said khan of Shirvan himself went to...

prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-writer to the Shirvanshahs. His fame most securely...

Shirvanshah of Shirvan (1465–1500). In 1500, the first Safavid ruler, Ismail I, decisively defeated and killed Farrukh Yasar during his conquest of the area...

would rule Georgia better than he himself had. In 1117 David sent him to Shirvan to fight, and the young commander astonished the people with his deftness...

He soon died himself and the Safavid army was able to capture Ganja, Shirvan and Shamakhi in Azerbaijan. The Long Turkish War between the Ottomans and...

Hamadan Province Cheshmeh Pahn, Malekshahi, Ilam Province Cheshmeh Pahn, Shirvan and Chardaval, Ilam Province Cheshmeh Pahn-e Alishah, Kermanshah Province...

against Shah Mansur who was tasked with conquering Shirvan as a part of Shah Shoja Mozaffari's invasion of Azerbaijan in 1375. He continued to mint coins...

County Kheyrabad, Faruj, a village in Faruj County Kheyrabad, Shirvan, a village in Shirvan County Kheyrabad, Buin Zahra, a village in Buin Zahra County...

was eventually taken back to Shirvan by his men after suffering a head injury from a battle-axe by Balid, a ghulams of Maymun, who subsequently reconquered...

of a new period of fierce conflicts that would last for 15 years and would even involve the governor of Shirvan. Right when Khan Ahmad Khan arrived in...

was sixth Shah of Shirvan and third Shah of Layzan. He was reigning as Layzanshah as heir of his father Muhammad. He attacked Shirvan c. 917 and captured...

party to Shirvan, especially Shaki, which was fruitless. Another invasion force was sent to capture Sultaniyya and Qazvin under the command of Bistam Beg...

region of contemporary northwestern Iran, while the area of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was formerly referred to as Arran and Shirvan. On that...