Description of the Shirvan province, compiled in 1820, by order of the governor of Georgia, A.P. Yermolov, Major-General Prince Madatov, and acting state adviser Mogilev (Report). Tiflis: Printing House of the Main Directorate of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1867.
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^Bournoutian, George A. (2016). The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province prior to its Annexation by Russia. Gibb Memorial Trust. p. xvii. ISBN978-1909724808. Serious historians and geographers agree that after the fall of the Safavids, and especially from the mid-eighteenth century, the territory of the South Caucasus was composed of the khanates of Ganja, Kuba, Shirvan, Baku, Talesh, Sheki, Karabagh, Nakhichivan and Yerevan, all of which were under Iranian suzerainty.