Erivan Khanate


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Erivan Khanate
The Erivan Khanate ( —Yerevani khanut'yun;  — Khānāt-e Īravān;  — ایروان خانلیغی) also known as Čoḵūr Saʿd, was a khanate that was established in Safavid Persia in the eighteenth century. It covered an area of roughly 19,500 km2, and corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, most of the Iğdır Province and of Kağızman district of the Kars Province of present-day Turkey, and the Sharur and Sadarak districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of present-day Azerbaijan.

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