Khanates of the Caucasus

Azerbaijani khanates[1] or Caucasian khanates[2] is the historic name of a group of independent and semi-independent feudal states. They were in the area of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia and iranian Azerbaijan, The khanates were mostly created in the 1840s. Some were formed in the 1820s and 1830s. They slowly came under the control of the Qajar state and the Russian Empire. The khanates were of Turkic (Azerbaijani[3][4]) origins

Azerbaijani khanates

References
  1. Edward Allworth. Muslim Communities Reemerge. Historical Perspectives on Nationality. Duke University Press, 1994. ะกั‚ั€. 47.
    One of the first consequences of the conquest was the gradual dismantling of the Azerbaijani khanates, the principalities that had formed the political structure of the country. The khanates of Ganja, Shirvan, Talysh, Baku, Karabagh, Sheki, Nakhichevan, Derbent, and Kuba disappeared, one after the other, for the most part during the 1830s and the 1840s, and the process of breaking up these traditional polities contributed to the weakening of deeply rooted local particularisms
  2. Cronin, Stephanie, ed. (2013). Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800. Routledge. p. 53.
  3. Russian Azerbaijan, 1905โ€“1920 By Tadeusz Swietochowski page 272
  4. The Azeris", World and Its Peoples: Middle East, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2006, p. 751, ISBN 0761475710, In a series of wars with Persia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Russia gained the Azeri khanates north of the Araks River, which still forms the frontier between Azerbaijan and Iran.
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