Safavid_Qandahar

Safavid Kandahar

Safavid Kandahar

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The province of Kandahar (Persian: استان قندهار, romanized: Ostān-e Qandahar) was an eastern province of Safavid Iran centered around the city of Kandahar,[1] and one of the four provinces of the Khorasan administrative region.[2] It was composed of eight lower-ranking dependencies, Bost-Gereskh, Zamindavar, K.ri (Duki?), Y.ki (Chutiyali?), Garmsir-e Qandahar, Ghuriyan and the tribal district of the Hazaras, which included Qalat.[3]

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List of governors

This is a list of the known figures who governed Kandahar.[4][5] Beglerbeg, hakem and vali were all administrative titles designating the governor.[6]

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References

  1. [1]
    Floor 2008, p. 265.
  2. [2]
    Floor 2008, p. 128.
  3. [3]
    Floor 2008, p. 129.
  4. [4]
    Floor 2008, pp. 256–257.
  5. [5]
    Matthee & Mashita 2010, pp. 478–484.
  6. [6]
    Floor 2008, p. 124.

Sources

  • Floor, Willem (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers. ISBN 978-1933823232.
  • Matthee, Rudi; Mashita, Hiroyuki (2010). "Kandahar iv. From The Mongol Invasion Through the Safavid Era". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XV/5: Ḵamsa of Jamāli–Karim Devona. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 478–484. ISBN 978-1-934283-28-8.

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