Salim Khan Shams al-Dinlu was an early 17th-century

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 ...

military leader and official of Turkoman origin. A member of the Shams al-Dinlu tribe, of which he was the leader for numerous years, he served as the governor (''hakem'') of

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(''Akhesqeh'', also spelled as ''Akheshkheh''), the provincial capital of

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(also known as ''Meskheti'', ''Masq'', or ''Meshkhia''), from 1623 to 1627. Apart from this post, he also served as the governor of the Shams al-Dinlu tribal district in the Karabagh Province for numerous years. His son Ismail (Esma'il) succeeded him in 1629 as both the head of the tribe as well as the governor of the Shams al-Dinlu district.

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