Shoragel, Shuragel, Shorayel, or The Sultanate of Shoragel (

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established around 1747, in the period of

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s (1181.16 km²), and the population mainly consisted of

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of :Azerbaijan.

History

The sultanate was located in the north-west of Iravan khanate at the foot of Alagoz (Alayaz) mountain. The sultanate was surrounded by the mountains separating the Kartli-Kakheti kingdom from the north, the Talyn and Seyidli-Agsaqqalli districts from the south, and the Pembek (also known as Pambak) province and Abaran districts from the east. The Arpachay River separated the Shorayel sultanate from the Kars pashalyk. The center of the sultanate was Ertik (

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) The “Review Book of Iravan Province” shows the existence of 172 villages in Shoragel Sanjak (together with Pambak Province). According to the information given during the reign of Nadir Shah, there were 109 villages in Shoragel district as a part of Iravan khanate. In 1804, Russian troops invaded Shoragel resulting in the exodus of large portion of the local :Muslim population and the final abolition of the Shoragel sultanate in 1805. Abandoned villages were eventually inhabited by the Armenian population resettled from

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. Those records were mentioned three decades later in the "Review of Russian possessions beyond the Caucasus" printed by Russian State Department for External Trade in 1836. Part of the Shoragel residents, mainly

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Turks, left their lands in the wake of the

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in 1807 and found refuge in the territories of Iravan khanate and Kars pashalyk. In 1858, the Department of the General Staff of the Russian Empire notes that the Armenian population of

and

continue moving to the empty territories of Araks, Gokche lake (currently known as Sevan) and Shuragel. Both Araks and Gokche lake were the former territories of

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which was conquered and demolished like Shorayel (or Shoragel) sultanate in the same time period.

Rulers

* Budaq sultan sultan is the last ruler of the Shoragel sultanate. On October 20, 1805, he signed a document with

Pavel Tsitsianov Prince Pavel Dmitriyevich Tsitsianov (russian: Павел Дмитриевич Цицианов), also known as Pavle Dimitris dze Tsitsishvili ( ka, პავლე ციციშვილი; —) was a Georgian nobleman and a prominent genera ...

on Shoragel's permanent subordination to Russia in

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city. Budag sultan had three sons named Gara Mohammad bey, Hamid bey, Khalil bey.

References

Sources

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