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Governors of Azerbaijan (Iran)

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There is an incomplete list of governors of Azerbaijan, a region in northwestern Iran.

Kings of Media Atropatene

Coins of Darius I of Media Atropatene, Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, Artabanus III of Parthia, Vonones II and Pacorus II
  • Atropates from 320s BC til an unknown date
  • Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC) ruled in 221 BC or 220 BC, a contemporary of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus III the Great. He is said to be a paternal grandson of the Persian King Darius II from his marriage to the daughter of Gobryas
  • Mithridates (100 BC – 66 BC), ruled from 67 BC to c. 66 BC who was father-in-law of the Armenian King Tigranes the Great
  • Darius I (c. 85 BC – c. 65 BC), ruled c. 65 BC
  • Ariobarzanes I (c. 85 BC – 56 BC), ruled from 65 BC to 56 BC
  • Artavasdes I (65 BC – 20 BC), ruled from 56 BC until 31 BC. Son of the above named Ariobarzanes and a son-in-law of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene
  • Asinnalus (flourished 1st century BC), ruled from 30 BC to an unknown date in the 20s BC
  • Ariobarzanes II (40 BC – 4), ruled sometime from 28 BC to 20 BC until 4 AD and served as King of Armenia from 2 BC to 4
  • Artavasdes II, who served as Artavasdes III (20 BC – 6), King of Media Atropatene and Armenia from 4 AD to 6 AD
  • Artabanus (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 38 AD), grandson of Artavasdes I, ruled from 6 until 10
  • Vonones (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 51 AD), brother of Artabanus and ruled from 11? until 51
  • Pacorus (flourished 1st century & first half of 2nd century), son of the above named and ruled from 51 AD until 78 AD

Early Islamic rulers

Sajid dynasty

10th century governors

Sallarid dynasty

Coins of Arabic rulers Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj and Marzuban ibn Muhammad
  • Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (919–941)
  • Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (941/2–949)
  • Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–953)
  • Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–957)
  • Justan I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–960)
  • Ismail ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan (960–?)
  • Ibrahim I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–979)
  • Nuh ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan
  • Marzuban II ibn Ismail, ruler of Azerbaijan

Golden Horde governor of Azerbaijan (claimant)

Timurid governors of Azerbaijan

Safavid governors of Azerbaijan

Persian governors of Azerbaijan: Miran Shah, Qarachaqay Khan and Vakhtang VI of Kartli

Qajar governors of Azerbaijan

Qajar governors of Azerbaijan: Abbas Mirza, Bahman Mirza Qajar and Mehdi Qoli Hedayat

Pahlawi governors of Azerbaijan

Notes

  1. ARTABAZANES, Encyclopedia Iranica
  2. García Sánchez, M (2005): "La figura del sucesor del Gran Rey en la Persia Aqueménida", in V. Troncoso (ed.), Anejos Gerión 9, La figura del sucesor en las monarquías de época helenística.
  3. Hallock, R (1985): "The evidence of the Persepolis Tablets", en I Gershevitch (ed.) The Cambridge History of Iran v. 2, p. 591.
  4. Cassius Dio, 36.14
  5. Azerbaijan iii. Pre-Islamic History, Atropates, Persian satrap of Media, made himself independent in 321 B.C. Thereafter Greek and Latin writers named the territory as Media Atropatene or, less frequently, Media Minor: Parthian period
  6. Ptolemaic Genealogy: Tryphaena, Footnote 13
  7. ^ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Affiliated Lines, Descendant Lines Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Swan, P.M. (2004), The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14), p.114, Oxford University Press
  9. Madelung 1997, pp. 193
  10. Blankinship (1994), pp. 150–151
  11. Blankinship (1994), p. 171
  12. Crone (1980), p. 144
  13. Daftary, F. (1998). "2". In Asimov, M.S.; Bosworth, C.E. (eds.). Sectarian and national movements in Iran, Khurasan and Transoxania during Umayyad and early Abbasid times [History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Age of Achievement, 8750 Ad to the End of the 15th Century]. UNESCO. p. 50. ISBN 92-3-103467-7.
  14. Al-Tabari 1991, p. 175.
  15. Madelung 1975, p. 228.
  16. Minorsky 1958, p. 60.
  17. ^ Madelung 1975, p. 234.
  18. Humphreys, R. S. From Saladin to the Mongols, The Ayyubids of Damascus, SUNY Press 1977, p.335
  19. Matthee 1999.
  20. Nasiri & Floor 2008, p. 155.
  21. Babaie 2004, p. 126.
  22. Floor 2008, p. 241.
  23. Storey, C. A. (1927–39), Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, vol. 1, pt. I, p. 318. London.
  24. Mikaberidze 2011, p. 2.
  25. Hoiberg 2010, p. 10.
  26. Anne K. S. Lambton, Qajar Persia, 1987, p. 16; Mehdi Bamdad: Sharh-e hal-e Rejal-e Iran, I, 1999, p.197; Mohammad Ali Bahmani-Ghajar: Neveshtar-e Bahman Mirza, Tehran, p. 3.
  27. "A'lam, Mozaffar". Encyclopedia Iranica. Retrieved 11 November 2012.

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