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Siege of Ganja (1804), the Glossary

The siege of Ganja (نبرد گنجه) or assault on Ganja (Штурм Гянджи) was the result of a Russian offensive in the South Caucasus intended to conquer the Ganja Khanate of Qajar Iran, which contributed to the escalation of the Russo-Persian War (1804–1813).^[1]

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Ganja Khanate
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January 1804 events
Massacres committed by Russia
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Abbas Mirza

Abbas Mirza (عباس میرزا; August 26, 1789October 25, 1833) was a Qajar crown prince of Iran.

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Abbasgulu Bakikhanov

Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov (Abbasqulu ağa Bakıxanov) (Amirjan – January 1847, Wadi Fatimah, near Jeddah), Abbas Qoli Bakikhanov, or Abbas-Qoli ibn Mirza Mohammad (Taghi) Khan Badkubi was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher.

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Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (translit; 14 March 1742 – 17 June 1797), also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah (آغا محمد شاه), was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling from 1789 to 1797 as Shah.

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Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I (–), nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death in 1825.

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Ardahan Province

Ardahan Province (Ardahan ili; Parêzgeha Erdêxanê; არტაანის რეგიონი) is a province in the north-east of Turkey, bordering Georgia and Armenia.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri, also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch.

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Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis (Azərbaycanlılar, آذربایجانلیلار), Azeris (Azərilər, آذریلر), or Azerbaijani Turks (Azərbaycan Türkləri, آذربایجان تۆرکلری) are a Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Azerbaijan region of northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Battle of Krtsanisi

The Battle of Krtsanisi (tr, نبرد کرتسانیسی) was fought between the army of Qajar Iran (Persia) and the Georgian armies of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and Kingdom of Imereti at the place of Krtsanisi near Tbilisi, Georgia, from September 8 to September 11, 1795, as part of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar's war in response to King Heraclius II of Georgia’s alliance with the Russian Empire. Siege of Ganja (1804) and Battle of Krtsanisi are battles involving Qajar Iran.

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Beylerbey

Beylerbey (lit, meaning the 'commander of commanders' or 'lord of lords') was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Seljuks and the Ilkhanids to Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

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Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden)

Elizabeth Alexeievna (Елизавета Алексеевна; –), born Princess Louise of Baden (Luise Marie Auguste von Baden), was Empress of Russia during her marriage to Emperor Alexander I.

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Erivan Khanate

The Erivan Khanate (translit), also known as, was a khanate (i.e., province) that was established in Afsharid Iran in the 18th century.

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Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr; May 1769 – 24 October 1834) was the second Shah (king) of Qajar Iran.

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Filippo Paulucci

Filippo Paulucci delle Roncole (11 September 1779 – 25 January 1849), also known as Filipp Osipovich Pauluchchi (Филипп Осипович Паулуччи), was an Italian marquis and army officer, later a general at the services of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Russian Empire.

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Ganja Fortress

Ganja Fortress (Gəncə qalası) is a fortress in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Ganja Khanate

The Ganja Khanate (also spelled Ganjeh; خانات گنجه|translit.

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Ganja, Azerbaijan

Ganja (Gəncə) is Azerbaijan's third largest city, with a population of around 335,600. Siege of Ganja (1804) and Ganja, Azerbaijan are Ganja Khanate.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Grenadier

A grenadier (derived from the word grenade) was historically an assault-specialist soldier who threw hand grenades in siege operation battles.

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Guz

A guz (also spelled gaz, from Hindustani / and Persian, or gudge, from Hindi (gaj)), or Mughal yard, is a unit of length used in parts of Asia.

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Gyumri

Gyumri (Գյումրի) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country.

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Heraclius II of Georgia

Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II (ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian (პატარა კახი; 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 – 11 January 1798), was a Georgian monarch (mepe) of the Bagrationi dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.

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Hossein Khan Sardar

Hossein Qoli Khan Qajar Sardar Iravani (حسین قلی خان قاجار سردار ایروانی) was a statesman and commander in Qajar Iran, who was the last khan (governor) of the Erivan Khanate from 1807 to 1828.

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Iğdır Province

Iğdır Province (Iğdır ili, Parêzgeha Îdirê) is a province in eastern Turkey, located along the borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan (the area of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic), and Iran.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Javad Khan

Javad Khan Qajar; c. 1748 – 1804) was a member of Ziyadoghlu Qajar, a clan of the Qajar tribe, as well as the sixth and the last khan of the Ganja Khanate from 1786 to 1804 before it was lost to Russia.

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Jäger (infantry)

Jäger (hunter; jäger) is a German military term referring to specific light infantry units.

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Juma Mosque, Ganja

Juma Mosque of Ganja (Cümə məscidi) or Friday Mosque of Ganja is a mosque located in the centre of Ganja, Azerbaijan.

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Karapapakhs

The Karapapakhs (Qarapapaqlar; Karapapaklar), or Terekeme (Tərəkəmələr; Terekemeler), are a Turkic people, who originally spoke the Karapapakh language, a western Oghuz language closely related to Azerbaijani and Turkish.

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Kars Province

Kars Province (Kars ili; Azerbaijani: Qars Rayonu; Parêzgeha Qersê; Կարսի նահանգ) is a province of Turkey, located in the northeastern part of the country.

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Lake Çıldır

Lake Çıldır (Çıldır Gölü;; ჩრდილი, ჩრდილის ტბა, Črdilis tba, meaning "lake of shadows", Ծովակ Հիւսիսոյ, Tsovak Hyusiso, meaning "small sea of the north", Պաղկացի լիճ, Paghkatsi lich, meaning "cold lake"), is a large freshwater lake in the provinces of Ardahan and Kars in northeastern Turkey.

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Lezgins

Lezgins (Лезгияр lezgijar) are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native predominantly to southern Dagestan, a republic of Russia, and northeastern Azerbaijan, and speak the Lezgin language.

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Musketeer

A musketeer (mousquetaire) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket.

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Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası) is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Naqadeh

Naqadeh (نقده) is a city in the Central District of Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Narva

Narva is a municipality and city in Estonia.

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Paul I of Russia

Paul I (Pavel I Petrovich; –) was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his 1801 assassination.

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Pavel Tsitsianov

Prince Pavel Dmitriyevich Tsitsianov (Па́вел Дми́триевич Цициа́нов), also known as Pavle Dimitris dze Tsitsishvili (პავლე ციციშვილი; —), was an Imperial Russian general of Georgian noble origin who played a prominent role in the Russian conquest of the South Caucasus.

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Qajar Iran

The Sublime State of Iran, commonly referred to as Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, and also the Guarded Domains of Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.

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Qizilbash

Qizilbash or Kizilbashitalic (Latin script: qızılbaş); قزيل باش; qizilbāš (modern Iranian reading: qezelbāš); lit were a diverse array of mainly Turkoman "The Qizilbash, composed mainly of Turkman tribesmen, were the military force introduced by the conquering Safavis to the Iranian domains in the sixteenth century." Shia militant groups that flourished in Azerbaijan, Anatolia, the Armenian highlands, the Caucasus, and Kurdistan from the late 15th century onwards, and contributed to the foundation of the Safavid and Afsharid empires in early modern Iran.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ganja_(1804)

Also known as Battle of Ganja (1804).

, South Caucasus, Tabriz, Tadeusz Swietochowski, Tamar of Georgia, Tarikh-e Qarabagh, Vasily Potto, Vassal state, West Azerbaijan province.

Siege of Ganja (1804), the Glossary

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See also

1804 in Iran

1804 in the Russian Empire

Battles involving Qajar Iran

Battles of the Russo-Persian Wars

Conflicts in 1804

December 1803 events

Ganja Khanate

Imperial Russian war crimes

January 1804 events

Massacres committed by Russia

November 1803 events

Sieges involving the Russian Empire

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