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Shahverdi Sultan

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1568, Ganja, Azerbaijan

Shahverdi Sultan Ziyadoghlu Qajar (Persian: شاهوردی سلطان زیاد اوغلو قاجار‎‎), better simply known as Shahverdi Sultan (شاهوردی سلطان), was a Safavid military leader of Turkmen origin, who served as the governor of Karabakh and Ganja during the reign of king Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576).

Biography

Shahverdi Sultan belonged to the Ziyadoghlu family, a family which belonged to Qajar tribe, and thus part of the Qizilbash. Shahverdi Sultan's family had originally been dispatched to govern Karabakh in southern Arran. In 1554, Shahverdi Sultan was appointed governor of the Karabakh beglerbeylik and of its administrative center, Ganja, by king (shah) Tahmasp I. A year later, in 1555, he was immediately dispatched by Tahmasp I to secure the eastern Georgian kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti, which had been recognized as Iranian domains per the ratified Peace of Amasya with the neighboring Ottoman Empire. Head of the Persian army as sent by Tahmasp towards Kartli, Shahverdi Sultan's army met those of the Georgian king Luarsab I and his son Simon at Garisi (present-day Tetritsqaro), where a major battle culminated. Shahverdi Sultan and his army were routed at Garisi, but Luarsab himself died in battle.

Shahverdi Sultan is thereafter no longer mentioned in other sources—it is known he had a son named Khalil Khan Ziyadoghlu, whose son, Muhammad Khan Ziyadoghlu, also served as the governor of Ganja.

References

Shahverdi Sultan Wikipedia