Introduction and annotated translation by George A. Bournoutian

From the beginning of the 17th century until the Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) the region of Transcaucasia was nominally under Persian control. The Christian Armenians and Georgians and the Muslims (Persians, Turkic, and Kurdish) lived under the rule of Muslim khans, Georgian princes, and Armenian melkiks.

The majority of Persian primary sources are chiefly concerned with the political history of Persia proper during the Safavid, Afshar, Zand and Qajar periods. The region of Karabagh, as well as the rest of Transcaucasia, is, for the most part, allotted a cursory paragraph by the main Persian chroniclers.

A number of local historians, however, have focused on the history of the various regions of Transcaucasia. Two such histories, Tarikh-e Karabagh and Karabagh-name, both written in the first half of the 19th century, deal with the Khanate of Karabagh.

They are translated here in their entirety, supplemented by material from three other local sources, which detail the history of Karabagh and its surrounding khanates. Together they provide new information on the history of the area.

297 pages, soft cover

ISBN# 1568591799