Mohammad-Ali Khan was an early 18th-century

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official, who served as the governor (''beglarbeg'') of

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from 1719 to 1720. Described as a despotic governor by contemporaneous sources, Mohammad-Ali Khan served during the chaotic years in which the Safavid state was crumbling and in a state of heavy decline. In early 1719 he was forced to flee following an uprising by the people of his province. After the event, the Iranian government at

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is said to have responded by imposing a heavy

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(the provincial capital) and by ordering the inhabitants to obey the local authorities.

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* * {{s-end 18th-century deaths Safavid governors of Azerbaijan 18th-century people from Safavid Iran