Erivan Province (Safavid Iran)

Velāyat-e Iravān Chokhur-e Sa'd
1502–1736
The administrative divisions of Safavid Iran in the South Caucasus
Status	Province of Safavid Iran
Capital	Erivan (Yerevan)
Common languages	Persian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Armenian
Government	Province
beglarbeg, hakem
Succeeded by Afsharid Iran
Today part of	Armenia Azerbaijan Iran Turkey

The Erivan Province^[a] (Persian: ولایت ایروان, romanized: Velāyat-e Iravān), also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd^[b] (Persian: چخور سعد), was a province of Safavid Iran, centered on the territory of the present-day Armenia. Erivan (Yerevan) was the provincial capital and the seat of the Safavid governors.^[1]

At the end of the Safavid period, it had the following administrative jurisdictions; Bayazid, Maghazberd (now near Üçbölük village of Arpaçay district), Maku, Nakhchivan, Sadarak, Shadidlu, Zaruzbil, and the tribal district of the Donbolis.^[1]

The provinces of Erivan and Karabakh were the two administrative territories that made up Iranian Armenia.^[2][3]

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