AzerbaijanandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSIran

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · AZE LEFT · IRN RIGHT

1. c. 1st century BCE

   The kingdom of Caucasian Albania

   The Caucasian Albanians established a kingdom in the eastern Caucasus, much of which overlaps present-day Azerbaijan, before falling under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Persian Empire.

   Formation · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Gobustan, Caucasian Albania and the land of fire · REFS 2 — Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (ed. Glenn E. Curtis), Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

2. 1501

   Ismail I and the Safavid empire

   Crowned shah at Tabriz with his base in Azerbaijan, Ismail I founded the Safavid dynasty and made Twelver Shia Islam the state religion, binding the land to Persia.

   Religion · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · REFS 2 — Safavid dynasty, Ismāʿīl I, shah of Iran

3. 1813

   Treaty of Gulistan

   Ending the Russo-Persian war of 1804–13, Persia ceded to Russia the eastern Caucasus khanates from Lankaran to Derbent, including Baku, Shirvan, Ganja and Karabakh.

   War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · REFS 2 — Treaty of Golestān (Gulistan), 1813, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence

4. 1828

   Treaty of Turkmenchay

   The second Russo-Persian war ended with Turkmenchay, confirming Russian rule and adding Nakhichevan and Yerevan, fixing the Aras-river border that still divides the two Azerbaijans.

   War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · REFS 2 — Treaty of Turkmenchay, 1828, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence