Lankaran

Lankaran is a town in Azerbaijan, at the coast of the Caspian Sea, near the southern border with Iran. It has a population of 226,799. It is next to, however unbiased of, Lankaran rayon. The town forms a awesome first-order department of Azerbaijan. The metropolis becomes built on a swamp along the northern bank of the river bearing the town's name. There are stays of human settlements inside the area relationship lower back to the Neolithic length in addition to ruins of fortified villages from the Bronze and Iron Ages. With the death of Nader Shah, the Talysh Khanate became based by a sure Seyyed Abbas, whose ancestors were members of the Iranian Safavid dynasty, and had moved into the

Talish location throughout the 1720s in the course of a turbulent period in Iranian history. From the founding of the khanate, till 1828, it was below the suzerainty of the Iranian Zand and Qajar dynasties. In the primary half of the 18th century, the Russians won control over it for some years through the Russo-Persian War of 1722-1723; in 1732 it become ceded returned to Iran through the Treaty of Resht. During the Russo-Persian War of 1804 to 1813, General Kotlyarevsky heading the southernmost Russian contingent during the conflict, stormed and captured Lankaran's castle.