Khachen

Khachen was an Armenian mountain principality in Karabakh, ruled by the Hasan-Jalalyan dynasty. In 1337 Johan Hasan-Jalalyan held the principality under nominal Ilkhanid suzerainty.

The dynasty retained its title under later Safavid rule. In the late sixteenth century its branches formed the melikdoms of Gulistan and Jraberd, among the Five Melikdoms. The meliks sent envoys to Peter the Great in 1711 seeking Russian protection. The Karabakh Khanate curtailed their autonomy from 1750; Russia took over in 1805, and Khachen's last melik, Allahverdi II, died in 1813.