Qazaq Khan Cherkes
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Qazaq Khan Cherkes
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Qazaq Khan Cherkes was a military commander in Safavid Iran of Circassian origin, who also served as the governor (beglarbeg) of Shirvan (1624–1633) and Astarabad (1639–1640). A high-ranking member of the gholam military corps, he was furthermore appointed head of the Qaramanlu and Keneslu Qizilbash troops by then incumbent king Abbas I as part of the latter's policy to diminish the political influence of the Qizilbash. In 1632, during king Safi's bloody purges, his relative, the prominent Circa
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