Rudbar Mahal Explained

Rudbar Mahal was one of seventeen districts in the Shirvan Khanate at the time it was annexed by Russia in 1820.^[1]

History

The Rudbar Mahal was present in Sabirabad, Saatly, Neftchala and Hajigabul Districts.

The governor (naib) of mahal was Dargha Mammadkhan (the second half of the 18th century).

Population

See main article: Javad Khanate. In 1821 there were eighteen settlements (Javad, Dabbaglar, Balvan, Qarali, Yenikend, Gazili, Ahmedbeyli, Guruzmanli, Abdulyan, Yenica, Mustafali, Ahtaci, Meyniman, Kovratlı, Surra Atamoghlan, Surra Aghabedal, Surra Mammad, Surra Abdulla bey, Alimadatli) where 422 families lived.

Economy

Residents of the Rudbar district were engaged in agriculture and sericulture.

See also

• Qalaqayın
• Mughan Mahal

Source

• Description of the Shirvan province, compiled in 1820, by order of the governor of Georgia, A.P. Yermolov, Major-General Prince Madatov, and acting state adviser Mogilev . 1867 . Tiflis . Printing House of the Main Directorate of the Viceroy of the Caucasus . .

References

1. Book: Bournoutian. George A.. The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province prior to its Annexation by Russia. 2016. Gibb Memorial Trust. xvii. Serious historians and geographers agree that after the fall of the Safavids, and especially from the mid-eighteenth century, the territory of the South Caucasus was composed of the khanates of Ganja, Kuba, Shirvan, Baku, Talesh, Sheki, Karabagh, Nakhichivan and Yerevan, all of which were under Iranian suzerainty. . 978-1909724808.