Mujir al-Din Baylaqani (also spelled Bailaqani; fa, مجیرالدین بیلقانی; died 1197/98) was a

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

poet of the 12th-century. As implied by his ''

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'', Baylaqani was from

Baylaqan Beylagan ( az, Beyləqan ) is the administrative centre of the Beylagan District of Azerbaijan. During the Soviet era, it was renamed Zhdanov (russian: Жданов) after Stalinist politician Andrei Zhdanov. This move was reverted in 1991 when t ...

, a town in Arran. During the 12th-century, Baylaqan served as a frontier between the sphere of influence of the

Shirvanshah ''Shirvanshah'' ( fa, شروانشاه), also spelled as ''Shīrwān Shāh'' or ''Sharwān Shāh'', was the title of the rulers of Shirvan from the mid-9th century to the early 16th century. The title remained in a single family, the Yazidids, a ...

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and

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. During this period, the

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region was inhabited by different ethnic groups, as demonstrated by Baylaqani's maternal side, which was

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* * * * * * {{Authority control 12th-century Iranian people Year of birth unknown 1190s deaths Year of death uncertain Iranian people of Armenian descent People from Beylagan District 12th-century Persian-language poets Poets of the Shirvanshahs