Treaty of Turkmanchai , 1828, agreement signed by Russia and Persia at the village of Turkmanchai (Torkaman), East Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran. It concluded the Russo-Persian war that had begun in 1825 and forced Persia to cede part of Persian Armenia to Russia and to grant extraterritorial rights.
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The Persian Frontier: Griboedov as Orientalist and Literary Hero1
Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2003; Brintlinger, Angela; 8045 words;
... Griboedov put himself precisely on such a frontier, whose political border was fixed by treaty, but whose cultural borders were at once dangerous and fascinating. Interestingly, it ... his own dignity as well as those of his general and tsar. In January of 1828, with the Turkmanchai treaty negotiations ...
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Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Middle East Quarterly; 6/22/2003; Rubin, Michael; 417 words;
... order to implement the humiliating Treaty of Turkmanchai that ended the second Russo-Iranian war. Under terms of the treaty, Iran forever forfeited its claim ... privileges for Russian merchants. The treaty's implementation was complicated ...
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Middle East; 3/1/2002; Rhodes, Fred; 254 words;
... Persians and the British in the region. In 1827, he secured Russian gains, including Armenia, by drafting the Treaty of Turkmanchai, which still forms the basis for international borders. Two years later, Griboyedov and his Tehran staff fell ...
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(book review)
The Middle East; 3/1/2002; Rhodes, Fred; 257 words;
... Persians and the British in the region. In 1827, he secured Russian gains, including Armenia, by drafting the Treaty of Turkmanchai, which still forms the basis for international borders. Two years later, Griboyedov and his Tehran staff fell ...
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Mizra Fath Ali Akhundzade and the call for modernization of the Islamic world.
Middle Eastern Studies; 7/1/1995; Kia, Mehrdad; 12155 words;
... the first Russo-Iranian war and the signing of the Gullstan treaty in 1813. When Akhundzade arrived in Tiflis in 1834 it was ... of 1829. Bakikhanov was also present at the signing of the Turkmanchai treaty in 1828, which marked the annexation of the Caucasus region ...
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He played the Great Game and lost George Walden praises this Life of a little-known Russian diplomatist and playwright
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... of India - rather than in Central Asia in the 1850s. The wars and intrigues finally led to the signing of the treaty of Turkmanchai, negotiated by Griboyedov, which set the frontier between Russia and Persia to this day. It is a vivid, dramatic ...
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... character each nationalist movement acquired. Northern Azerbaijan, when it split from the south as a result of the 1828 Turkmanchai Treaty, acquired the status of a conquered alien land, subjected to the imperial rule of a Christian sovereign. In many ...
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