Khanates of the Caucasus

Azerbaijani khanates or Caucasian khanates is the historic name of a group of independent and semi-independent feudal states. They were in the area of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia and iranian Azerbaijan, The khanates were mostly created in the 1840s. Some were formed in the 1820s and 1830s. They slowly came under the control of the Qajar state and the Russian Empire. The khanates were of Turkic (Azerbaijani) origins