Agha Kishi Beg () was the

khan Khan may refer to: * Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name * Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by various ethnicities Art and entertainment * Khan (band), an English progressiv ...

of the

Shaki Khanate The Shaki Khanate (also spelled Shakki; ) was a khanate under Iranian and later Russian suzerainty, which controlled the town of Shaki and its surroundings, now located in present-day Azerbaijan. History Since 1551, Shaki had been under the c ...

from 1755 to 1759. Agha Kishi Beg was a son of

Haji Chalabi Khan Haji Chalabi Khan (1703 1755), was a statesman, warlord, ruler and founder of Shaki Khanate. Origin Born to a certain landlord Gurban beg during the reign of Sultan Husayn in 1703, he was of noble birth. Biographer Haji Seyid Abdulhamid mentio ...

, the khan of Shaki and a grandson of the priest of the former church of Kish. In 1755, Haji Chalabi Khan died and was succeeded by his Agha Kishi Beg. In addition to fortifying the town of Shaki, Agha Kishi Beg carried on his father's policy of maintaining cordial ties with the nearby khanates of

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and

Quba Quba () is a city and the administrative centre of the Quba District (Azerbaijan), Quba District of Azerbaijan. The city lies on the north-eastern slopes of Mount Shahdagh, Shahdag mountain, at an altitude of 600 metres above sea level, on the ...

. Agha Kishi Beg married the daughter of the Qazi-Qomuq chief in

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, Mohammad Khan. In 1759, Agha Kishi Beg was persuaded to a meeting where he was killed by Mohammad Khan and the latters ally Soltan Ali, a well-known local figure. A grandson of Hajji Chalabi Khan,

Muhammad Husayn Khan Mushtaq Muhammad Husayn Khan Mushtaq (Persian: محمد حسین خان مشتاق, ), was the third khan of Shaki. He was described as a courageous but ruthless man by Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov. Early years He was a grandson of Haji Chalabi. His f ...

, was sent away to safety in Shirvan by the dignitaries of the Shaki khanate. He came back some months later, expelled the Qazi-Qomuq, and reinstated his family's rule in Shaki.

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* * {{EI2, last1=Minorsky, first1=Vladimir, last2=Bosworth , first2=Clifford Edmund, authorlink1=Vladimir Minorsky, authorlink2=Clifford Edmund Bosworth, volume=9, title=S̲h̲akkī, url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shakki-SIM_6788 People from the Shaki Khanate 1759 deaths