XVIII yüzillik – XIX yüzilliyin əvvəllərində Osmanlı-Azərbaycan ...

tion of Russia, which had plans of occupying the Azerbaijan and did not want the formation of oneunited state in these territories Fatali Khan did not manage to subjugate the South Azerbaijan.İn the autumn of 1784 sultan sent a new staff of representatives headed by İbrahim efendy to Azerbaijan.İn the «ferman», which were brought by İbragim Efendy, Sultan summoned muslims to the «sacredwar», to the uniting against the Russian expansion. Also İbragim Efendy brought some funds forkhans.After it, dgars resumed their attacks on Georgia. Khans of Sheki, Khoy and Garabakh united withAkhisky pasha and took an oath that they would struggle against Russian agression together. Obviously,the formation of this alliance became one of the reasons which caused the failure of realization of Russiancampaign to the South Caucasus.By the order of Ottoman pashas dgars and some of Azerbaijan rulers attacked the Georgia and triedto capture Tiflis. But at the last and very significant moment Ottoman government stopped Azerbaijanand Dagestan rulers, because it was afraid of the new war with the Russia.İn the middle of 80-ies Ali Murad Khan, who had taken the power in Central İran after the death ofKerim Khan and who were trying to consolidate his power, adressed to Russian government with thesuggestion to divide the Azerbaijan. He declared that he was ready to give the territories of NorthernAzerbaijan khanates up for Russia what was very profitable for the Russia. But Ottoman Empire, havingno desire to be indifferent to the fact of devision of Azerbaijan khanates by enemies showed its negativeattitude to this.From the middle of 80-ies feds between Azerbaijan khans fierced again. The Khoy khanate in theSouthern Azerbaijan was strengthening: it managed to subjugate khans of İrevan, Nakhchyvan andKaradag, and in 1785 Ahmed Khan of Khoysky subordinaded the Tabriz khanate. Taking into considerationthe power and authority of Ahmed Khan Ottoman court tried to establish close relationships withhim. Khan of Khoy was supplied with artillery and with considerable amount of provisions. Moreover, inorder to honour Khan of Khoy Ottomans gave him a title of serasker (commander). But soon the murderof Ahmed Khan weakened the authority of Ottoman Empire in Southern Azerbaijan.After the new sharpening of Ottoman-Russian contradictions and taking into account the approachingof the war between two imperies, Ottomans began to act with resolve in the Southern Caucasus. İnautumn of 1785 Umma Khan of Jar attacked the Borchaly fabric and silver mine. There was made an effortto attack the Tiflis and Lory fortress was in siege. As it is known, in the second half of 80-ies amongthe claimants to the Shah throne in İran was noticable Aga Muhammed Kadjar. He decided to subjugateall the countries and districts which had been in the body of the former Safavies Empire. One of his capitalpurposes was the occupation of Azerbaijan and Eastern Georgia.İn 1786 the relationships between İrakliy the II and the Ottoman Empire became better. Having understoodthat in the approaching Russian-Ottoman war the Russia would not have enough strength toprotect Georgia, İrakliy the II tried to ensure himself from attack of Ottomans. The friendship with theİrakliy the II was also profitable for Ottomans.The striving of Russia for occupying the territories of Ottoman Empire broke out the new war betweenthese countries. Ottoman government was trying to use the forces of Azerbaijan khanates in thewar. But the fierce feuds between Azerbaijan khans did not allow them to unite against Russia. At thesame time Russian-Georgia-Armenian campaign to Garabakh for precipitating İbrahim khan and forcreation of Armenian state stopped, because of withdrawal of Russian military troops from Tiflis.From the 1792 in the policy of Ottoman Empire about Caucasus appeared serious changes. Russia,which won a victory in the previous war deprived the Ottoman Empire of the opportunity to carry out theactive policy in Southern Caucasus by concluding the Jassin treaty. Now, to the struggle for supremacyin this region joined a new claimant - Aga Muhammed khan, who had to the middle of 90-es subordinatedalmost whole İran. Khahs of İrevan and of Garabakh were afraid of Aga Muhammed’s attacks, soin 1789-1790 they asked for the help of Ottoman Empire. Karadag, Maraga and Khoy khanates did thesame in 1790-1791. Having arrived in Tabriz in 1791, Aga Muhammed Khan subjugated all the southAzerbaijan khanates. Then he decided to subjugate the northern Part of the coutry and Eastern Georgia.İn their turn khans of Northern Azerbaijan began to send their representatives to Turkey more often. So,the representative of Sheykh Ali khan of Guba arrived in İstanbul in 1794. As the situation inside of Turkeywas not stable and Ottoman government had no opportunity to pay attention to the region of Caucasusin the appropriate manner, the cool reception was shown to the representative of Guba.170