{{Short description|Eurasian polity}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2024}}{{Infobox country|||| | native_name = ارش سلطان‌لیغی | conventional_long_name = Sultanate of Arash | common_name = Arash sultanate | era = | status = Sultanate | status_text = Sultanate<Br>Under Shaki Khanate suzerainty<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.drevlit.ru/texts/k/kerim_text.php|title=KERIM AGA FATEH. BRIEF HISTORY OF SHEKI KHANS|last=Shakikhanov|first=Karim agha|website=www.drevlit.ru|language=ru|access-date=2019-07-01}}</ref> | year_start = 1747 | year_end = 1795 | date_start = | date_end = | event_start = Establishment | event_end = Abolished within Shaki Khanate | p1 = Safavid Empire | flag_p1 = Safavid Flag.svg | p2 = | flag_p2 = | s1 = Russian Empire | flag_s1 = Flag of Russia.svg | s2 = Areshsky Uyezd | flag_s2 = Coat of Arms of Yelizavetpol Governorate.png | image_coat = | image_flag = | flag_border = no | image_map = | image_map_caption = | national_motto = | national_anthem = | capital = Arash | common_languages = Persian (official),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Swietochowski|first1=Tadeusz|authorlink = Tadeusz Swietochowski|title=Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community|date=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0521522458|page=12|quote=(...) and Persian continued to be the official language of the judiciary and the local administration [even after the abolishment of the khanates].}}</ref> Azerbaijani | currency = | title_leader = Sultan | leader2 = | title_deputy = | deputy1 = | deputy2 = | stat_area3 = | stat_pop1 = | stat_year1 = | demonym = | area_km2 = | area_rank = | GDP_PPP = | GDP_PPP_year = | HDI = | HDI_year = | today = | leader1 = Malik Ali }} '''Arash Sultanate''' was a feudal fiefdom that existed between 1747-1795 in Transcaucasus. It comprised modern Aghdash, Yevlakh and Mingachevir raion of Azerbaijan.{{cn|date=August 2020}}

== History == Arash as a city was founded in 15th century. It was governed within Shirvan beylarbeylik of Safavid Empire. Later, it was later put under suzerainty of Shaki Khanate by Haji Chalabi Khan. It consisted of 27 settlements with ~5000 population, 19% of them being Armenian or Udi.{{cn|date=August 2020}}

== Sultans ==

* Malik Ali {{En dash}} was involved in Aghakishi beg's murder in 1759. Later, rebelled against Muhammad Husayn Khan Mushtaq who was his son-in-law in 1761, but put under his suzerainty with confirmation from Fatali khan Afshar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.drevlit.ru/texts/k/kerim_text.php|title=Brief History of Shaki Khans|last=Shakikhanov|first=Karim agha|website=www.drevlit.ru|language=ru|access-date=2019-07-03}}</ref> Killed shortly after that. * Malik Ali Muhammad {{En dash}} son of former. * Malik Ali Husayn * Shabaddin Sultan {{En dash}} nephew of Malik Ali, rebelled against Muhammad Hasan khan, killed in 1795.<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of Shaki in Sources|date=2005|publisher=Master|others=Tahirzadä, Ädalät., Azärbaycan Milli Elmlär Akademiyası. Şäki Regional Elmi Märkäzi.|isbn=0976995409|location=Bakı|pages=217|oclc=64428641}}</ref> After his death, sultanate was abolished and absorbed into Shaki Khanate as a district.

== References == <references />{{Khanates of the Caucasus}} Category:1747 establishments in Asia Category:1795 disestablishments in Asia Category:Former sultanates Category:States and territories disestablished in 1795

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