Ispahbad

The Ispahbad was a small Talysh principality on the Caspian coast between Gilan and Mughan. By the fourteenth century its rulers governed from Astara.

In 1337 the ispahbad held the coast as a Jalayirid vassal. Later in the fourteenth century Jalal al-din Husayn still held his throne at Astara. The region became part of the Talysh Khanate and passed to Russia in 1813.