Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 - Muriel Atkin

4 Introduction of the Church in the second half of the seventeenth century; and the rebellion of Sten'ka Razin (1670-1671), whic ...

Introduction 5 to acquire more territory along the coast and march inland into north- western Iran to join forces with a Georgia ...

6 Introduction vention as vengeance for an unlawful attack on people under their protection by a party that was not the rightful ...

Introduction 7 to Peter's activities and his treaty with Tahmasb but only as secondary arguments. Her campaign in the eastern Ca ...

II The Iranian Empire and the Caucasian Borderlands at the End of the Eighteenth Century The most salient feature of late eighte ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 9 Fars. He gained control of most of the Iranian plateau (except for Khorasan, which wa ...

10 Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands gan to emerge as Aqa Mohammad steadily whittled away at the do- mains of the last im ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 11 or Iranians. Even before the rapid worsening of its fortunes in the last years of th ...

12 Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands the khans would have deprived themselves of an important source of revenue had they ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 13 religious literature, and employ the clergy of their faith for their congregations. ...

14 Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands There is little information about the khans' conceptions of their office—whether, li ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 15 logical college known to have existed in the region was in Derbent. Even if it funct ...

16 Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands ful neighbors. At the low end of the economic spectrum were Nakh- javan and Talesh. ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 17 able to dock along the shore. As a result, the city functioned as the primary region ...

18 Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands with Zand support, but later in that decade he was ousted through the intervention o ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 19 just as Russia and Iran renewed their claims to the eastern Caucasus. Developments i ...

20 Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands Qobbeh's motives are less clear, but the ruling dynasty had tradition- ally allied i ...

Iranian Empire and Caucasian Borderlands 21 duced by the devastation of war. Although the khan of Shakki was the only ruler to b ...

Ill Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great Russia in the era of Catherine the Great expanded at a prodigious rate. In some ...

Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great 23 partition of Poland among Austria, Prussia, and Russia all reflect the pervasive ...