Governors of Azerbaijan (Iran) explained
There is an incomplete list of governors of Azerbaijan, a region in northwestern Iran.
Kings of Media Atropatene
- Atropates from 320s BC til an unknown date
- Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC) ruled in 221 BC or 220 BC, a contemporary of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus III the Great. He is said to be a paternal grandson of the Persian King Darius II from his marriage to the daughter of Gobryas[1] [2] [3]
- Mithridates (100 BC – 66 BC), ruled from 67 BC to c. 66 BC who was father-in-law of the Armenian King Tigranes the Great[4]
- Darius I (c. 85 BC – c. 65 BC), ruled c. 65 BC[5]
- Ariobarzanes I (c. 85 BC – 56 BC), ruled from 65 BC to 56 BC
- Artavasdes I (65 BC – 20 BC), ruled from 56 BC until 31 BC. Son of the above named Ariobarzanes[6] and a son-in-law of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene[7]
- Asinnalus (flourished 1st century BC), ruled from 30 BC to an unknown date in the 20s BC
- Ariobarzanes II (40 BC – 4), ruled sometime from 28 BC to 20 BC until 4 AD[8] and served as King of Armenia from 2 BC to 4[8]
- Artavasdes II, who served as Artavasdes III (20 BC – 6), King of Media Atropatene and Armenia from 4 AD to 6 AD[8]
- Artabanus (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 38 AD), grandson of Artavasdes I,[7] ruled from 6 until 10
- Vonones (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 51 AD), brother of Artabanus and ruled from 11? until 51[7]
- Pacorus (flourished 1st century & first half of 2nd century), son of the above named and ruled from 51 AD until 78 AD
Early Islamic rulers
10th century governors
- Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (919–941)
- Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (941/2–949)
- Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–953)
- Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–957)
- Justan I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–960)
- Ismail ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan (960–?)
- Ibrahim I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–979)
- Nuh ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan
- Marzuban II ibn Ismail, ruler of Azerbaijan
Golden Horde governor of Azerbaijan (claimant)
Timurid governors of Azerbaijan
Safavid governors of Azerbaijan
Qajar governors of Azerbaijan
- Abbas Mirza (1798-?)
- Djahangir Mirza Fereydoon Mirza (1831-?)
- Nosrat-od-Dowleh Firouz Mirza (1837-1850)
- Bahman Mirza Qajar (1841-?)[15]
- Mehdi Qoli Hedayat (1908-1911)
Pahlawi governors of Azerbaijan
References
Notes and References
- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/artabazanes-autonomous-ruler-of-armenia-who-submitted-to-the-seleucid-king-antiochus-iii-in-220-b ARTABAZANES
- García Sánchez, M (2005): "La figura del sucesor del Gran Rey en la Persia Aqueménida", in V. Troncoso (ed.), Anejos Gerión 9, La figura del sucesor en las monarquías de época helenística.
- Hallock, R (1985): "The evidence of the Persepolis Tablets", en I Gershevitch (ed.) The Cambridge History of Iran v. 2, p. 591.
- [Cassius Dio]
- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/azerbaijan-iii Azerbaijan iii. Pre-Islamic History, Atropates, Persian satrap of Media, made himself independent in 321 B.C. Thereafter Greek and Latin writers named the territory as Media Atropatene or, less frequently, Media Minor: Parthian period
- http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/tryphaena_fr.htm Ptolemaic Genealogy: Tryphaena, Footnote 13
- http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/affilates/aff_ptolemies.htm Ptolemaic Genealogy: Affiliated Lines, Descendant Lines
- Swan, P.M. (2004), The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14), p.114, Oxford University Press
- Blankinship (1994), pp. 150–151
- Blankinship (1994), p. 171
- Crone (1980), p. 144
- Book: Daftary . F. . M.S. . Asimov . C.E. . Bosworth . Sectarian and national movements in Iran, Khurasan and Transoxania during Umayyad and early Abbasid times . History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Age of Achievement, 8750 Ad to the End of the 15th Century . https://books.google.com/books?id=18eABeokpjEC&pg=PA50 . 1998 . UNESCO . 92-3-103467-7 . 50 . 2 .
- Humphreys, R. S. From Saladin to the Mongols, The Ayyubids of Damascus, SUNY Press 1977, p.335
- Storey, C. A. (1927–39), Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, vol. 1, pt. I, p. 318. London.
- Anne K. S. Lambton, Qajar Persia, 1987, p. 16; Mehdi Bamdad: Sharh-e hal-e Rejal-e Iran, I, 1999, p.197; Mohammad Ali Bahmani-Ghajar: Neveshtar-e Bahman Mirza, Tehran, p. 3.
- Web site: A'lam, Mozaffar. Encyclopedia Iranica. 11 November 2012.
