ON THE GENEALOGY OF THE SULTANS IN THE VILLAGE OF YAJI OF THE NAKHCHIVAN DISTRICT

Abstract

The article notes that the genealogy of the Sultan families that ruled certain Magals of the Nakhchivan region in the XVII - in the first half of the XIX centuries. is a scientific issue in the circle of genealogical interest. One of these clans was the Ibrahim-Sultanovs, whose representatives ruled the entire Daralagaz Magal and its individual villages, and lived mainly in the village of Yaji. Based on the Shah's firman and early cameral descriptions of the region under Russian rule, it became possible to bring some clarity to unknown pages of this kind over the specified period. It was established that their ancestor was Velikuli Khan, who lived during the period of Shah Abbas I (1587-1629). His descendant Rahim Sultan from the Kengerly tribe ruled the Daralagaz Magal in the second half of the 18th century. In 1773, Kerim Khan Zend appointed Rahim Sultan to the post of Finance Commissioner of the Nakhchivan Region (Vekalati-maliyyat). In the course of maintaining a cameral description of the Daralagaz Magal (1831 and 1842), the family structures of his sons and grandchildren with Sultan and Bek-Agalar titles, as well as their property status were recorded exactly by Russian officials, that all these reliable data allowed to restore the basic period of genealogy.