Capture of Erivan
| Capture of Yerevan | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) | |||||||||
.jpg) Franz Roubaud's painting of the Yerevan Fortress siege in 1827 by the Russian forces under leadership of Ivan Paskevich | |||||||||
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 Russian Empire |
 Persian Empire | ||||||||
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Ivan Paskevich Roman Bagration |
Abbas Mirza Hossein Khan Sardar | ||||||||
The capture of Erivan (Template:Lang-az; Template:Lang-ru; Template:Lang-fa; Template:Lang-hy) took place on October 1, 1827, during the Russo-Persian War of 1826–28. The city fell to the Russians after being besieged for a week and opened up the path for the eventual capture of Tabriz, the second largest city in Persia and an important trading post.[1]
As a result of the capture of Tabriz, the Shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar sued for peace which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828. Under the treaty, the Erivan Khanate (present-day Armenia) and Nakhichevan Khanate (present-day Azerbaijan) were ceded to the Russian Empire.[2]
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Aftermath
References
- ^ Tucker, Spencer C. (2010). A global chronology of conflict from the ancient world to the modern Middle East (1st ed.). Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. p. 1148. ISBN 9781851096725.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ King, Charles (2008). The ghost of freedom a history of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780198039549.
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