Treaty of Gulistan
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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Eastern Question
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...controlled the Balkan Peninsula. With the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699), the disintegration...of the struggle, terminating with the Treaty of Jassy (1792), left Russia with a...again secured favorable terms in the Treaty of Bucharest (1812). Russian conquests...Caucasus were confirmed in the treaties of ...
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Baku
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...region of Caucasia was conquered by Russian forces in a war against Iran in the 1800s and confirmed by the 1813 Treaty of Gulistan. Baku has meant two things to Russia: oil and strikes. The former has had the more enduring significance. The Baku...
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Fath Ali Shah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...but the shah's hopes were dashed when Napoleon signed the Treaty of Tilsit (1807) with Russia. Fath Ali subsequently turned...ah's attempt to reconquer Georgia proved disastrous, and the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) and the Treaty of Turkmanchai (1828) deprived Persia of the Caucasus and...
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Napoleon I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...adopted a pacifist diplomacy: On October 8, 1801, a peace treaty was officially signed with France. But this position became...Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire (with the Bucharest treaty in 1812), and Georgia from Persia (by the Gulistan treaty in 1813). Despite these large successes, Russia ...
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Nagorno-Karabakh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Karabakh khanate was formed. Karabakh alone was ceded to Russia in 1805; the khanate passed to the Russians by the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813. In 1822 the Karabakh khanate was dissolved and the area became a Russian province. The Nagorno-Karabakh...
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