Shervan or Shirvan was a former Azerbaijani province in Caucasus, a state ruled by the Shervanshahs and the birthplace of the Persian poet Khaqani or Khaghani. Its capital was Shemakha. The Caucasus , a region boardering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Shemakha is a town in Azerbaijan, 70 miles west of the national capital Baku, and in 40 38 N. and 48 40 E. It has some 20,000 inhabitants, formerly consisting of Azerbaijanis (75%), Armenians and Russians. ...
Shervan was ceceded from Qajar-Turk Empire by the Gulistan Treaty of 1813 and was annexed to Russia. It is now part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Gulistan Peace Treaty of 1813, a peace treaty between imperial Russia and Persia, signed on October 24 (November 5) in a village of Gulistan in Karabakh at the end of the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813. ...
As is the case with many city and village names in large countries, there is often more than one city or village with the same name in different parts of Iran. Shervan/Shirvan happens to be one such case.
There is another Shervan/Shirvan in modern Iran proper, in the province of North Khorasan. Categories: Iran geography stubs | Provinces of Iran ...
Khaghani was not Turkish. His mother was actually a Georgian christian convert to Islam. Aran or Arran, a historical geographical name in Azerbaijan. ...
Shervan or Shirvan is a historic region in Russian Azerbaijan, stretching between the western shore of the Caspian Sea and the Kura River.
Shirvan's population consisted of Caucasian peoples speaking Lezgi, Avar, Udi, Kriz and Iranian peoples speaking Tats of Shervan.
This population was slowly Turkisized since the 11th century onward, yet some speakers of the Caucasian languages still live in the distant villages of Shamakha, Shaki, Qabala, and Oguz.
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