Agha Kishi Beg ( fa, آقا کیشی بیگ) was the
khan
Khan may refer to:
*Khan (inn), from Persian, a caravanserai or resting-place for a travelling caravan
*Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name
*Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by ...
of the
Shaki Khanate
The Shaki Khanate ( fa, خانات شکّی, also spelled as Sheki Khanate, Shekin Khanate, Shakki Khanate) was one of the most powerful of the Khanates of the Caucasus, Caucasian Khanates established in Afsharid dynasty, Afsharid Iran, on the n ...
from 1755 to 1759.
Agha Kishi Beg was a son of
Haji Chalabi Khan
Haji Chalabi Khan (; 1703 1755), was a statesman, warlord, ruler and founder of Shaki Khanate.
Origin
Born to a certain landlord Gurban beg during the reign of Sultan Husayn in 1703, he was of noble birth. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dic ...
, the khan of Shaki and a grandson of the priest of the former church of Kish. In 1755, Haji Chalabi Khan died and was succeeded by his Agha Kishi Beg. In addition to fortifying the town of Shaki, Agha Kishi Beg carried on his father's policy of maintaining cordial ties with the nearby khanates of
Shirvan and
Quba. Agha Kishi Beg married the daughter of the Qazi-Qomuq chief in
Daghestan, Mohammad Khan. In 1759, Agha Kishi Beg was persuaded to a meeting where he was killed by Mohammad Khan and the latters ally Soltan Ali, a well-known local figure. A grandson of Hajji Chalabi Khan,
Muhammad Husayn Khan Mushtaq, was sent away to safety in Shirvan by the dignitaries of the Shaki khanate. He came back some months later, expelled the Qazi-Qomuq, and reinstated his family's rule in Shaki.
References
Sources
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* {{EI2, last1=Minorsky, first1=Vladimir, last2=Bosworth , first2=Clifford Edmund, authorlink1=Vladimir Minorsky, authorlink2=Clifford Edmund Bosworth, volume=9, title=S̲h̲akkī, url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shakki-SIM_6788
Shaki Khanate
1759 deaths