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Qollar-aghasi
The Qollar-aghasi, also spelled Qullar-aqasi, was the commander of the Safavid Empire's élite '' gholam'' (also spelled ''ghulam'') corps. The word means ''lord of slaves'' in Azeri (''qullar'' means 'slaves' and ''ağası'' means 'lord of'). The holder of the office was one of the most powerful individuals in the entire Safavid state, and in fact by the end of the Safavid-era, he was the most important military official after the '' qurchi-bashi''. List of ''Qollar-aghasis'' Reign of Abbas I * Yulqoli Beg (1590) * Allahverdi Khan (1591) * Qarachaqay Khan (1617-1624) * Khosrow Mirza (1629-1632) Reign of Shah Safi * Khosrow Mirza (1629-1632) * Siyavosh Beg (1632-1655) Reign of Abbas II * Siyavosh Beg (1632-1655) * Allahverdi Khan (1655-1663) * Jamshid Khan (1663-1667) Reign of Suleiman I * Jamshid Khan (1663-1667) * Kaykhosrow Khan (prior to 1693) * Mansur Khan (prior to 1693) * Isa Beg (1693) * Aslamas Beg (1693-1695) Reign of Sultan Husayn * Aslamas B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Of The Safavid Dynasty
The military of Safavid Iran covers the military history of Safavid Iran from 1501 to 1736. Foundation of the Safavid military It was the first Safavid king (shah), Ismail I (1501–1524), who laid foundation to the Safavid military. Its origins date back to 1500, when Ismail decided to come out of hiding from Lahijan, a city in Gilan, northern Iran. On his way to Azerbaijan, he recruited followers, and had already recruited 450 at Rasht and 1,500 at Tarom. By summer, Ismail had already gathered 7,000 followers, mostly Turkmens from Asia Minor, whom he had rallied together in Erzincan, while the rest were Iranians, mainly from northern Iran. Ismail fought the Shirvanshah Farrukh Yassar during the same year, where his army is said to have ranged from 7,000 to 40,000. Another founding element of the Safavid armies, alongside the Turkomans and the Iranians, were ethnic Georgians. Numerous contemporary independent Venetian sources report that, as early as 1499, Ismail had Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qollar-aghasi
The Qollar-aghasi, also spelled Qullar-aqasi, was the commander of the Safavid Empire's élite '' gholam'' (also spelled ''ghulam'') corps. The word means ''lord of slaves'' in Azeri (''qullar'' means 'slaves' and ''ağası'' means 'lord of'). The holder of the office was one of the most powerful individuals in the entire Safavid state, and in fact by the end of the Safavid-era, he was the most important military official after the '' qurchi-bashi''. List of ''Qollar-aghasis'' Reign of Abbas I * Yulqoli Beg (1590) * Allahverdi Khan (1591) * Qarachaqay Khan (1617-1624) * Khosrow Mirza (1629-1632) Reign of Shah Safi * Khosrow Mirza (1629-1632) * Siyavosh Beg (1632-1655) Reign of Abbas II * Siyavosh Beg (1632-1655) * Allahverdi Khan (1655-1663) * Jamshid Khan (1663-1667) Reign of Suleiman I * Jamshid Khan (1663-1667) * Kaykhosrow Khan (prior to 1693) * Mansur Khan (prior to 1693) * Isa Beg (1693) * Aslamas Beg (1693-1695) Reign of Sultan Husayn * Aslamas B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Rostom Of Kartli
Rostom ( ka, როსტომი) or Rustam Khan (; died 8 March 1722) was a Georgian prince, member of the Bagratid House of Mukhrani of Kartli, and a general in the service of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. He was killed by the Afghan rebels at the climactic battle of Gulnabad. Family background Rostom was a natural son of Levan, the regent of Kartli, by an unknown concubine. He was a half-brother of three monarchs of Kartli— Kaikhosro, Vakhtang VI, and Jesse—and the catholicos patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Domentius IV. Rostom's career, like those of many of his relatives, was shaped by the political hegemony of Safavid Iran over Kartli. He spent many years far from his homeland as a member of the Safavid élite to which he was also related by kinship: he was married to a daughter of Fath 'Ali Khan Daghestani, who served as grand vizier (chief minister) of Iran from 1716 to 1720. Safavid general Rostom's appointments in the Safavid service included b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansur Khan (qollar-aghasi)
Gorjasbi Beg, better known as Mansur Khan, was a Safavid military commander, royal '' gholam'', and official from the Georgian Orbeliani clan. He served as the commander of the empire's élite gholam corps (''qollar-aghasi'') sometime before 1693, and as the governor (''beglarbeg'') of Qandahar in 1663. He was a son of the Georgian nobleman Aslamaz, and had at least two brothers, Otar (Zu al-Faqār) and Vakhushti Vakhushti ( ka, ვახუშტი; 1696 – 1757) was a Georgian royal prince ('' batonishvili''), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, '' Description of the Kingdom of Georgia'' and the ''Ge ..., who held prominent positions like him. According to Alexander Orbeliani (1802–1869), he had one more brother named Kaykhosrow. Notes Sources * * * * {{s-end Qollar-aghasi Iranian people of Georgian descent Shia Muslims from Georgia (country) Nobility of Georgia (country) Safavid governors of Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allahverdi Khan
Allahverdi Khan (, ka, ალავერდი-ხანი; 1560 – June 3, 1613) was an Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin who, initially a '' gholām'' ("military slave"), rose to high office in the Safavid state. Iskandar Beg Munshi, the Safavid court historian at the time, describes him as "one of the most powerful statesman to hold office under this dynasty", and a "man of great forbearance, modest and chaste". Shah Abbas I demonstrated his genuine respect and affection for him by personally supervising the funeral arrangements, and by going to his house the day after his death to offer his personal condolences to his family. Biography Background Allahverdi was born a Christian Georgian, surnamed Undiladze. Like many of his compatriots and fellow Christian Georgians, Armenians and Circassians, he was taken prisoner in the course of one of the Caucasian campaigns of shah Tahmasp I of Persia and converted to Islam to be trained for service in the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qarachaqay Khan
Qarachaqay Khan (; died 1625) was a military commander in Safavid Iran of Armenian origin. He was known for his great collection of porcelain items and loyal service to Shah Abbas I. Qarachaqay Khan was killed while commanding an expedition against the Georgian rebels. Career Born as a Christian Armenian in Erivan, Qarachaqay was enslaved in childhood and brought to the Safavid court to be raised as a '' gholam''. He began his career in a royal tailoring workshop and was soon distinguished in the Safavid army as an artillery officer. In 1605, Qarachaqay Beg, being in charge of a musketeer regiment, under the command of Allahverdi Khan—also originally a ''gholam'' of Georgian origin—contributed to Abbas I's victory over the Ottoman forces at Sufiyan near Tabriz. During his career in the Safavid army and administration, Qarachaqay amassed a valuable collection of Chinese porcelain which he presented to Shah Abbas around 1610. Shortly afterwards, Qarachaqay was bestowed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostom Of Kartli
Rostom or Rustam Khan ( ka, როსტომი or როსტომ ხანი; c. 1565 – 17 November 1658) was a Georgian royal, from the House of Bagrationi, who functioned as a Safavid-appointed vali (i.e. viceroy)/king ('' mepe'') of Kartli, eastern Georgia, from 1633 until his death. Life Early years Youth Kaikhosro was born in 1567 in Isfahan, the imperial capital of Safavid Iran. He was the illegitimate son of the monarch Daud Khan and working at the royal court as a servant. Daud Khan did not gain full power until 1569, after defeating anti-Iranian forces in Georgia, and he spent much of his time before his ascension at the court of Shah Tahmasp I. It was during one of these visits that Kaikhosro was born and raised in the Islamic faith. He was raised at his father's royal court in Georgia, but when his father betrayed the Safavids during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590), Daud Khan took refuge in Constantinople, while his children, Kaikhosro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Bakar Of Kartli
Bakar ( ka, ბაქარი) (April 7, 1700 – February 1, 1750) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi dynasty and served as regent of the Kingdom of Kartli (eastern Georgia) from September 1716 to August 1719. Biography He was the son of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli by his wife, Rusudan of Circassia. Vakhtang left him in charge of the government of Kartli (eastern Georgia) during his absence at the Safavid court of Persia from September 1716 to August 1719. His position was recognized by the Shah of Persia who invested him, in 1717, with the title of ''janishin'', a crown, sword, gold insignia, and robe of honor. At the same time, he had to nominally embrace Islam and assumed the name of Shahnavaz Khan III. On this occasion, he was appointed by the Shah the commander-in-chief of the Persian army and governor-general of Azerbaijan. In 1722, he was appointed as commander of the elite '' gholam'' corps (''qollar-aghasi''). When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siyavosh Beg (qollar-aghasi)
Siyavosh Beg, also known by his nisba of Bāshīāchūghī (died or 1655), was a Safavid military commander, official, and '' gholam'' of Georgian origin. Siyavosh Beg rose through the ranks to become a military officer (''yuzbashi'') early on in his career. In 1632, he was appointed as the new governor (''hakem'') of Derbent and as commander of the élite ''gholam'' corps (''qollar-aghasi''), succeeding Khosrow Mirza (later Rostam Khan of Kartli) to this post. He remained commander of the corps for a lengthy period. From 1645 to 1649, he served as the governor (''hakem'' and ''beglarbeg'') of Kuhgiluyeh. When in 1645 the re-appointed grand vizier Khalifeh Sultan urged for repressive laws against Isfahan's large Armenian community, the latter turned to Siyavosh Beg, himself a former Christian. Like his then incumbent king Abbas II (1642-1666), Siyavosh Beg was an avid drinker. Siyavosh Beg's ''nisba'' is derived from "Bash-Achuk", a Persian appellation of the Kingdom of Ime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allahverdi Khan (Armenian)
Allahverdi Khan (; died 1662) was a Safavid military officer of Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ... origin. He was the son of a certain Khosrow Khan, and had a brother named Emamverdi Beg. Sources * * * * * * * * 1662 deaths Year of birth unknown Safavid military officers Persian Armenians Armenian Shia Muslims Safavid ghilman 17th-century births Safavid governors of Astarabad Safavid governors of Kuhgiluyeh Qollar-aghasi Masters of the hunt from Safavid Iran 17th-century people from Safavid Iran {{Armenia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani
Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani (), was a Lezgian nobleman, who served as the Grand Vizier of the Safavid ''shah'' (king) Soltan Hoseyn (r. 1694–1722) from 1716 to 1720. A member of an aristocratic Lezgian family native to Daghestan, Daghestani was unlike the earlier Safavid grand viziers, a Sunnite, which was a religious sect of Islam that often faced persecution from the Safavid state. Although this did not stop Daghestani from rising in power and influence—in July 1716, he was appointed as grand vizier by the indecisive and weak Sultan Husayn, who had little interest in political affairs, thus letting Daghestani take care of most of the affairs of the country. This, however, resulted in Daghestani making a lot of enemies, who eventually in 1720 had Daghestani removed from power by a ruse. He was thereafter blinded and exiled in Shiraz, where he later died. He was succeeded by Mohammad Qoli Khan Shamlu. Family Daghestani was a son of Safi Khan Lezgi (Alqas Mirza), who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultan Husayn
Soltan Hoseyn (; 1668 – 9 September 1727) was the Safavid shah of Iran from 1694 to 1722. He was the son and successor of Shah Suleiman (). Born and raised in the royal harem, Soltan Hoseyn ascended the throne with limited life experience and more or less no expertise in the affairs of the country. He was installed on the throne through the efforts of his powerful great-aunt, Maryam Begum, as well as the court eunuchs, who wanted to increase their authority by taking advantage of a weak and impressionable ruler. Throughout his reign, Soltan Hoseyn became known for his extreme devotion, which had blended with his superstition, impressionable personality, excessive pursuit of pleasure, debauchery, and wastefulness, all of which have been considered by both contemporary and later writers as elements that played a part in the decline of the country. The last decade of Soltan Hoseyn's reign was marked by urban dissension, tribal uprisings, and encroachment by the country's neighb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
