Aslamas Beg ( ka, ასლამაზ ორბელიანი), also known as Aslan Khan, was a

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often consid ...

official and military commander of Georgian origin. A scion of the Orbeliani family, Aslamas was the second son of

Vakhushti Khan Vakhushti Khan (d. 1667/69) was a Safavid official and royal '' gholam'' from the Georgian Orbeliani clan, who served as the governor (''hakem'') of Shushtar from September 1632 up to his death in 1667 or 1669. His descendants continued to flo ...

, the former governor of

Shushtar Shushtar ( fa, شوشتر; also Romanized as Shūshtar and Shūstar and Shooshtar) is a city and capital of Shushtar County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. Shushtar is an ancient fortress city, approximately from Ahvaz, the centre of the provin ...

. He was appointed prefect (''darugha'') of Isfahan, the royal capital, in 1683. Known for being hostile to the

Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, '' hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...

, he issued a ban on non-Muslims leaving their houses and appearing in public in times of rain as they would otherwise taint believers. The ban was cancelled after the wealthy Armenian merchants of

New Julfa New Julfa ( fa, نو جلفا – ''Now Jolfā'', – ''Jolfâ-ye Now''; hy, Նոր Ջուղա – ''Nor Jugha'') is the Armenian quarter of Isfahan, Iran, located along the south bank of the Zayande River. Established and named after the old ...

(Isfahan's Armenian quarter) appealed to the queen mother,

Nakihat Khanum Nakihat Khanum was the first wife of the Safavid king (''shah'') Abbas II (1642–1666). She was of Circassian origin. Originally a (slave) concubine, she was the mother of Abbas II's successor, king Suleiman I (1666–1694). Alike other fema ...

. Aslamas Beg later served as the commander of the élite ''

gholam Ghulam ( ar, غلام, ) is an Arabic word meaning ''servant'', ''assistant'', ''boy'', or ''youth''. It is used to describe young servants in paradise. It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid and to a lesser ...

'' corps (''

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'). T ...

'') in 1693–1695, and as the governor (''

beglarbeg ''Beylerbey'' ( ota, بكلربكی, beylerbeyi, lit= bey of beys, meaning the 'commander of commanders' or 'lord of lords') was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Selj ...

'') of

Qandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the ca ...

in 1694–1695, or 1696–1697. Aslamas's son, Mohammad-Ali Khan, briefly served as commander of the artillery ('' tupchi-bashi'') in 1722. Aslamas's namesake grandson, who died in 1740, later served as a ''beglarbeg'' of

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to t ...

(''Gorjestan'') during the reign of

Nader Shah Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian ...

(r. 1736-1747).

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