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Hasanali Khan Kadjar, Khan of Erevan 1755-1763. Brother of:

Huseinali Khan Kadjar, Khan of Erevan 1762-1783. Father of:

Goulamali Khan Kadjar, Khan of Erevan 1783-1784. Brother of:

Mohammed Khan Kadjar, Khan of Erevan 1784-1805

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Hosseinqoli Khan Kadjar, Khan of Iravan 1807-1827 Governor of Khorasan 1828 Governor of Bakhtiary 1829	Hasan Khan Kadjar, Sardar-e- Iravani, Sardar of Iravan 1807-1827 Governor of Yazd 1835 Governor of Balouchestan 1845 Father of:

Childhood of Yousef Khan Sartip ca. 1830

son of Hasan Khan Kadjar Sardar-e Iravani

becomes later governor of Yazd ca. 1860 - Persia

Ahmad Khan Sardari Iravani – Moshir Hozour - 1900

Son of Yousef Khan Sartip Sardari Iravani

Abolghasem Khan Sardari Iravani 1907-1947

son of Ahmad Khan Moshir Hozour

Bahman Khan Sardari Iravani son of Abolghasem Khan & Noushabeh Khanoum Broumand

1937-2007 daughter of Mahmanzar Khanum Kadjar Qoyunlu

Amir Ali Sardari Iravani son of Bahman Khan & Sadaf Saeb,

Nika Sardari Iravani born on 13. December 2006

Source: Encyclopedia Iranica by George Bournoutian

Hosaynqoli Khan Sardar- e Iravani:

Important governor in the early Qajar period (b. ca. 1155/1742, d. 1246/1831). He was the son of Mohammad Khan Qajar, a member of the Qovanlu clan of the Qajars, who in the eighteenth century had governed Iravan (Erevan, q.v.). His birthplace is unknown. His occasional use of the title of Qazvini could indicate Qazvin as a possible birthplace, but more probably the association relates to his successful campaign against Sadeq Khan Shaqaqi near Qazvin and his subsequent governorship there. Hosaynqoli is first mentioned as being in Shiraz as a member of the household of the heir-apparent, Baba Khan (later Fath-Ali Shah), where he served as the head page (qollar-aqasi; Bamdad, Rejal I, p. 402). After his accession to the throne, Fath- Ali Shah rewarded Hosaynqoli for his loyalty in a number of ways: by granting him several posts, including the governorship of Khorasan (Sepehr, I, pp. 119-24), by marrying a sister of Hosaynqoli, by asking for the hand of one of Hosaynqoli's daughters for Abbas Mirza (q.v.), the heir to the throne (Ormanian, III, p. 3481) and, by agreeing to the marriage of his 29th daughter to Mohammadqoli, the son of Hosaynqoli (Bamdad, Rejal I, p. 497).

Requiring a strong and loyal governor to command the fortress of Erevan against the Russian advances during the first Russo-Persian War (1804-1813), the shah appointed Hosaynqoli as the commander-in-chief (sardar) of the Persian forces north of the Araxes (Aras) River (Freygang, p. 284). A year later, Hosaynqoli's brother, Hasan Khan, whose reputation for bravery had earned him the sobriquet saru aslan ("yellow lion"), arrived in Erevan, but he continued to harass the Russian forces on the borders of Georgia (Hedayat, Rawzat al-safa IX, pp. 388-90). During his twenty-year tenure Hosaynqoli tried to win the goodwill of the population, especially of the Armenians. The rightful head of the Armenian Church, Catholicos Daniel, whose seat was usurped by Catholicos David, was reinstated at the Holy See of Ejmiatsin (Uch-Kilisa) outside of Erevan (Bournoutian, 1992, p. 78). He kept good relations with Melik Sahak Aqamal, the secular chief of the Armenians of the khanate of Erevan, and was instrumental in arranging the marriage of Sahak's daughter to the renegade Georgian prince, Alexander Batonishvili, a staunch enemy of the Russians. Foreign travelers call him one of the most powerful and wealthy chiefs in Persia with as much authority as Abbas Mirza (Morier, p. 313; Fraser, I, p. 227; Ker Porter, I, p. 202; Kotzebue, p. 105).

Hosaynqoli Khan did not have any members of his family as hostages in Tehran, had the right to mint coins, and had the rare opportunity of keeping a large part of the revenue for defense purposes. He encouraged trade and created a stable administration. Even Armenian and Russian sources, who have little good to say about the Persian khans in Transcaucasia, praise Hosaynqoli for being kind, honest, noble, conscientious, and just (Abovian, III, p. 58; Haxthausen, pp. 265-66). In the long run, the ill-organized Persian army was no match for the full force of the experienced Russian army, veterans of the Napoleonic wars. The Second Russo-Persian War (1826-28) resulted in the Treaty of Turkamanchay and the annexation of the khanates of Erevan and Nakchivan (Chokur-e Sad) to Russia. Although Hasan was captured, held for four months in Tiflis, and released under article XIII of the Treaty of Turkamanchay (Sepehr, I, p. 379), Hosaynqoli, who had avoided capture was, according to Persian sources, honored by the shah and died a prosperous man at the age of ninety (Bamdad, Rejal I, p. 404). Armenian and Western sources, however, claim that he died in a stable, a poor and broken man (Alboyajian, p. 379; Lynch, I, p. 217). Unlike other Transcaucasian khans, Hosaynqoli did not make a deal with the Russians and managed to thwart their efforts for two decades. Russia's anger was demonstrated in article XII of the Treaty and Turkamachay (1 828), which specifically deprived him and his brother of the right to sell or exchange their property in ErevanÑa right granted to all others (Hurewitz, I, 99).

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