Treaty of Gulistan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 291 words | Copyright

Treaty of Gulistan , 1813, signed by Russia and Iran (Persia) at Gulistan, a village in what is now NW Azerbaijan. It ended the Russo-Persian war that had begun in 1804. Persia ceded the khanates forming the present-day state of Azerbaijan and renounced its claim on Georgia and Dagestan.

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