Shaki

Shaki was a principality in the southern Caucasus foothills, on the road between the Caspian and Georgia. A local clan seized power in the 1330s and ruled an independent Shaki after the Ilkhanate collapsed.

Timur stormed Shaki in 1392. A hereditary Muslim dynasty ruled from 1444 until the Safavids ended it in 1551. In 1743 Haji Chelebi founded the independent Shaki Khanate, enriched by silk. The treaties of Kyurekchay in 1805 and Gulistan in 1813 delivered it to Russia; the khanate was abolished in 1819.