Rudbar Mahal was one of seventeen districts in the
Shirvan Khanate
Shirvan Khanate () was a Caucasian khanate under Iranian suzerainty, which controlled the Shirvan region from 1761 to 1820.
Background
Under the Safavid dynasty of Iran, Shirvan was a leading silk manufacturer and its principal city, Shamakhi, ...
at the time it was annexed by Russia in 1820.
History
The Rudbar Mahal was present in
Sabirabad,
Saatly,
Neftchala and
Hajigabul District
Hajigabul District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the east of the country, in the Shirvan-Salyan Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Kurdamir, Agsu, Shamakhi, Gobustan, Absheron, Baku, Salyan ...
s.
The governor (naib) of mahal was ''Dargha Mammadkhan'' (the second half of the 18th century).
Population
In 1821 there were eighteen settlements (
Javad, Dabbaglar, Balvan, Qarali, Yenikend, Gazili, Ahmedbeyli, Guruzmanli, Abdulyan, Yenica, Mustafali, Ahtaci, Meyniman, Kovratlı, Surra Atamoghlan, Surra Aghabedal, Surra Mammad, Surra Abdulla bey, Alimadatli) where 422 families lived.
Economy
Residents of the Rudbar district were engaged in agriculture and
sericulture
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori, domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkwo ...
.
See also
*
Qalaqayın
*
Mughan Mahal
Source
* {{cite report , title=Description of the Shirvan province, compiled in 1820, by order of the governor of Georgia, A.P. Yermolov, Major-General Prince Madatov, and acting state adviser Mogilev , date=1867 , location=Tiflis , publisher=Printing House of the Main Directorate of the Viceroy of the Caucasus , ref={{sfnref, Description of Shirvan, 1867
References
Shirvan Khanate