Nakhichevan Khanate | |||||||||
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1747–1828 | |||||||||
Status | Khanate Under Iranian suzerainty[1][2] | ||||||||
Capital | Nakhichevan | ||||||||
Common languages | Persian (official)[3][4][5] Azerbaijani Armenian Kurdish | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1747 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1828 | ||||||||
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The Nakhichevan Khanate (Persian: خانات نخجوان, romanized: Khānāt-e Nakhjavān) was a khanate under Iranian suzerainty, which controlled the city of Nakhichevan and its surroundings from 1747 to 1828.
The territory of the khanate corresponded to most of the present-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and Vayots Dzor Province of present-day Armenia.[6]
(...) and Persian continued to be the official language of the judiciary and the local administration [even after the abolishment of the khanates].
(...) The language of official acts not only in Iran proper and its fully dependant Khanates, but also in those Caucasian khanates that were semi-independent until the time of their accession to the Russian Empire, and even for some time after, was New Persian (Farsi). It played the role of the literary language of class feudal lords as well.