Ibrahim Khalil Khan

Ibrahim-Khalil khan Javanshir (1730-1806) was the son of Panah-Ali khan Javanshir and the second ruler of Karabakh khanate.

Ibrahim Khan built a strong fortress in Shusha which was referred to, during his lifetime, as Panahabad .

In 1795 Agha Moháammad Khan Qajar attacked that region.Aga Muhammad khan Qajar's goal was to end the feudal fragmentation and to restore the old Safavid State in Iran .Khans of Ganja, Nakhjavan, and Erevan submitted, but Ibrahim Khan did not.In battle,he was defeated and get into Shusha fortress .By a verbal truce Ibrahim Khan acknowledged Qajar supremacy and was permitted to continue as khan of Karabakh.

In 1796 Following Agha Moháammad Khan's return to Persia proper, Catherine ordered her army to conquer the Caucasus.Ibrahim began negotiating with the Russian commanders and agreed to cooperate with them in exchange for maintaining his rule in Karabakh.Soon afterward Catherine died,Paul abandoned her plans for the region and recalled the Russian troops.

In 1797 Aga Muhammad khan , angered by the betrayal of Ibrahim Khalil Khan and other khans in the Caucasus, attacked Shusha and captured it.Ibrahim fled to his in-laws in Dagestan. Five days after the conquest of Shusha, Agha Moháammad Khan was assassinated in that city.

During Russo-Persian War (1804-1813), General Tsitsianov,promised that Russia would recognize Ibrahim Khan as khan and agreed that Ibrahim's elder son would succeed his father. Tsitsianov then occupied Shusha and left a Russian garrison there in 1805.Tsitsianov's death in 1806 and the breakup of the Russian offensive persuaded Ibrahim Khalil Khan to switch his allegiance and to ask the shah's aid in ousting the Russian garrison. A Persian army approached Shusha, and Ibrahim Khan left the fortress and camped outside. On 2 June 1806 the Russians, instigated by Ibrahim Khalil Khan's grandson and fearful of their own vulnerability, attacked the camp and killed Ibrahim Khan, one of his wives, a daughter, and his youngest son. [cite encyclopedia |last=BOURNOUTIAN |first=GEORGE| title=EBRAÚHÈM KòALÈL KHAN JAVAÚNˆÈR | encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Iranica | accessdate=2008-02-07|url=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v8f1/v8f1110.html] [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-129462/Azerbaijan Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online: History of Azerbaijan] ] [ [http://vostlit.info/Texts/rus2/Bakihanov/frametext4.htm Abbas-gulu Aga Bakikhanov. Golestan-i Iram] ] .

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