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Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule
1795-1828
George A. Bournoutian
At the start of the 19th century, when the Russian Empire once again began to move beyond
the Caucasus, eastern Armenia, the part of Transcaucasia that had long guarded the
northern boundary of Persia, became an important military objective. The Persian defenses
centered around the strategic and historic core of eastern Armenia, known as the Khanate
of Erevan. For two decades the Khanate of Erevan managed to thwart Russian advances, but
eventually the entire territory of Transcaucasia, nominally under Persian suzerainty for
almost two centuries, was annexed to the Russian Empire as a result of the Russo-Persian
Wars of 1804-1813 and 1826-1828.
Using archival and primary sources in Persian, Armenian, and Russian,
the author objectively details the political and socio-economic conditions in the khanate
throughout the Qajar period. This volume is the first to challenge the view held by Soviet
historians for over seventy years that Russians liberated the region.
Specifications:
1992:xxviii+356pp., maps, tables, appendices, bibl. (in six languages), index.
Persian Studies Series, No. 13
ISBN:0-939214-18-0(cloth): $35.00
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