Tarki

The Shamkhalate of Tarki was a Kumyk principality in the eastern North Caucasus, ruled by a shamkhal from Tarki on the Caspian.

Under Chopan-shamkhal in the sixteenth century its influence peaked, and his sister married Shah Tahmasp I of Iran. Kumyks destroyed a Russian army at Karaman in 1605. After a division into smaller fiefs, the shamkhalate was abolished following Peter the Great's Persian campaign and restored in 1734; the Treaty of Gulistan confirmed Russian annexation in 1813.