Jafarqoli Khan, also known as Jafarqoli Beg, was a

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

official of

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origin who served as the governor (''beglarbeg'') of

Astarabad Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies appro ...

in 1664 or 1666, during the reign of king Abbas II (1642-1666). A

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of the

Undiladze The Undiladze ( ka, უნდილაძე, fa, اوندیلادزه) were a Georgian noble family whose members rose in prominence in the service of Safavid Iran and dominated the Shah’s court at a certain period of the late 16th and early 1 ...

clan, Jafarqoli Khan was a grandson of the celebrated Safavid military and political leader Imam-Quli Khan, a son by one of his daughters and her husband Dāvūd (sometime governor of

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). Though the Undiladze family had almost been annihilated in its entirety in the early years of king Safi's reign (1629-1642), the succession of the family amongst the Safavid court elites was assured by Jafarqoli.

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* * 17th-century deaths Iranian people of Georgian descent Safavid governors of Astarabad Undiladze Shia Muslims from Georgia (country) 17th-century people of Safavid Iran {{Iran-bio-stub