Safiqoli Beg, later known as Safiqoli Khan (d. 1679), was a

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official and ''

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'' of

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

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...

from 1664 to 1666, and of the Erivan Province (also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd) from 1674 to 1679. A scion of the Saakadze family, Safiqoli was a son of the former ''

sepahsalar ''Ispahsālār'' ( fa, اسپهسالار) or ''sipahsālār'' (; "army commander"), in Arabic rendered as ''isfahsalār'' () or ''iṣbahsalār'' (), was a title used in much of the Islamic world during the 10th–15th centuries, to denote the sen ...

'' (commander-in-chief), Rostam Khan (c. 1588 – 1 March 1643) and a brother of Bijan Beg, sometime governor of the

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Province. Safiqoli Khan also served for some time as ''

Divan-beigi The Divan-begi ( fa, دیوان‌بیگی, Dīvān-beīgī) was a high-ranking official in Judicial system of Safavid Iran Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires ...

'' (chancellor, chief justice). Safiqoli had a son named Rostam, another high-ranking Saakadze figure, and a namesake to Safiqoli's father.

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