Safavid Kandahar

The province of Kandahar (Persian: استان قندهار, romanized: Ostān-e Qandahar) was an eastern province of Safavid Iran centered around the city of Kandahar,^[1] and one of the four provinces of the Khorasan administrative region.^[2] It was composed of eight lower-ranking dependencies, Bost-Gereskh, Zamindavar, K.ri (Duki?), Y.ki (Chutiyali?), Garmsir-e Qandahar, Ghuriyan and the tribal district of the Hazaras, which included Qalat.^[3]

List of governors

This is a list of the known figures who governed Kandahar.^[4][5] Beglerbeg, hakem and vali were all administrative titles designating the governor.^[6]

References

1. Floor 2008, p. 265.
2. Floor 2008, p. 128.
3. Floor 2008, p. 129.
4. Floor 2008, pp. 256–257.
5. Matthee & Mashita 2010, pp. 478–484.
6. Floor 2008, p. 124.

Sources

• Floor, Willem (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers. ISBN 978-1933823232.
• Matthee, Rudi; Mashita, Hiroyuki (2010). "Kandahar iv. From The Mongol Invasion Through the Safavid Era". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XV/5: Ḵamsa of Jamāli–Karim Devona. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 478–484. ISBN 978-1-934283-28-8.

Further reading

• Jaśkowski, Stanisław Adam (2023). "The Safavids and "Candechar, King of the Indies": Polish-Lithuanian Intelligence on Safavid-Mughal Relations". Journal of Persianate Studies. 15 (2): 174–214. doi:10.1163/18747167-bja10030.