Muğan

The Mughan plain stretches across the low country of the lower Aras, southwest of the Caspian Sea. Its grasslands offered winter pasture to pastoral communities, while towns and villages stood near the rivers and routes crossing the plain. In February 1736 Nader summoned an assembly of nomadic and settled leaders of the Safavid realm to a great encampment on Mughan. There he asked them to choose a ruler; after several days they proclaimed him shah, marking the end of Safavid rule and the beginning of his own reign.