Maqsud Sultan Kangarlu was a
Safavid military commander during the reign of king
Abbas I (r. 1588–1629), who also served as the governor of
Nakhchivan from 1605 to 1630. Maqsud Sultan was a member of the Kangarlu branch of the
Turkoman Ustajlu tribe, one of the original
Qizilbash
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tribes that had supplied power to the Safavids since its earliest days. He played an important role in the mass relocation of the empire's
Armenian
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subjects in the early years of the 17th century.
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Iranian Turkmen people
History of Nakhchivan
Safavid governors
Safavid generals
17th-century deaths
17th-century people of Safavid Iran