Fazl Ali-bey Javanshir (b. ?,

Safavid Karabakh The Province of Karabakh ( fa, ولایت قره باغ, translit=Velāyat-e Qarebāq) was a province of the Safavid Empire of Iran, centered on the geographic region of Karabakh. These provinces were headed by the shah's governors-general, who w ...

- d. 1738, Afsharid Empire) was a member of the

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and ...

Javanshir tribe The Javanshirs ( az, Cavanşirlər; fa, جوانشیران – ''Javānširān'') are a Turkic clan from Karabakh, who belong to the Afshar tribe and are in turn a branch of the Oghuz Turks. Between 1748 and 1822, members of the Javanshir clan ...

, the elder brother of Panahali Khan Javanshir. He worked as viceroy (naib) and chief butler (Eshik-agasybashi) of Nadir Shah Afshar.

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After ending the Safavid rule, Nadir Shah Afshar abolished the beylarbeys of

Shirvan Shirvan (from fa, شروان, translit=Shirvān; az, Şirvan; Tat: ''Şirvan''), also spelled as Sharvān, Shirwan, Shervan, Sherwan and Šervān, is a historical Iranian region in the eastern Caucasus, known by this name in both pre-Islam ...

, Chukhursad and

Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...

and unified Azerbaijan into a single administrative division with Tabriz as its capital and his brother Ibrahim Khan as its head. Nadir Shah recruited Fazlali Bey and Panahali Bey (later Panahali Khan), the sons of Ibrahimkhalil Agha, from the Javanshir clan to serve in his army. Because of their bravery, Nadir Shah appointed Fazlali Bey first as a viceroy and then as a butler. After Fazlali Bey was killed because he openly protested to Nadir Shah regarding the exile of the Karabakh lands, his position was entrusted to his younger brother Panahali Bey. According to Mirza Adigozal bey, Nadir Shah wanted to replace murdered Fazl Ali-bey Javanshir with his younger brother Panahali khan, “handed him the chomak (staff), clad him in the clothes of an eshik-agasy, and conferred on him the rights of his dead elder brother;” Mirza Adigozal bey wrote that Panah Ali bey found it humiliated to “carry the chomak, bow to Nadir Shah, and talk to his osauls.” Because his brother Fazl Ali bey was killed by Nader Shah, so he went off to plunder wealth with his tribesmen and went into hiding.Ismailov, Eldar, THE KHANS OF KARABAKH: THE ROOTS, SUBORDINATION TO THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, AND LIQUIDATION OF THE KHANATE,CA&C Press AB,Sweden, https://www.ca-c.org/c-g-online/2014/journal_eng/c-g-1-2/10.shtml#_edn13,

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* * {{cite book , first= Ədalət , last= Tahirzadə , title= Nadir şah Əfşar. (Tərcümeyi-hal oçerki) , year= 2005 , location= Baku , publisher= Çıraq 1738 deaths Karabakh Khanate 18th century in Azerbaijan 17th-century people of Safavid Iran People of the Afsharid Empire 18th-century people of Safavid Iran Ethnic Afshar people

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