Qasem Mirza was the self-declared Shah of Shirvan after the death of Gurban Ali.

Life

He was a member of the

Shirvanshahs The Shirvanshahs (Arabic/) were the rulers of Shirvan (in present-day Azerbaijan) from 861 to 1538. The first ruling line were the Yazidids, an originally Arab and later Persianized dynasty, who became known as the Kasranids (also referred t ...

. He escaped to the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

via the

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- Kaffa route. He participated in the Third Campaign of the Ottoman–Safavid War, and led an army of exiles and Turks to Shirvan in 1554. Despite a few victories, he lost the final battle and fled to

.Sara Ashurbayli. History of Shirvanshahs. p.248 His fate is unknown.

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* Year of birth unknown 16th-century Iranian military personnel Iranian emigrants to the Ottoman Empire {{Iran-royal-stub