# Governors of Azerbaijan (Iran)

There is an incomplete list of governors of Azerbaijan, a region in northwestern Iran.

## Kings of Media Atropatene

* Atropates from 320s BC til an unknown date
* Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC) ruled in 221 BC or 220 BC, a contemporary of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus III the Great. He is said to be a paternal grandson of the Persian King Darius II from his marriage to the daughter of Gobryas
* Mithridates (100 BC – 66 BC), ruled from 67 BC to c. 66 BC who was father-in-law of the Armenian King Tigranes the Great
* Darius I (c. 85 BC – c. 65 BC), ruled c. 65 BC
* Ariobarzanes I (c. 85 BC – 56 BC), ruled from 65 BC to 56 BC
* Artavasdes I (65 BC – 20 BC), ruled from 56 BC until 31 BC. Son of the above named Ariobarzanes and a son-in-law of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene
* Asinnalus (flourished 1st century BC), ruled from 30 BC to an unknown date in the 20s BC
* Ariobarzanes II (40 BC – 4), ruled sometime from 28 BC to 20 BC until 4 AD and served as King of Armenia from 2 BC to 4
* Artavasdes II, who served as Artavasdes III (20 BC – 6), King of Media Atropatene and Armenia from 4 AD to 6 AD
* Artabanus (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 38 AD), grandson of Artavasdes I, ruled from 6 until 10
* Vonones (flourished second half of 1st century BC – 51 AD), brother of Artabanus and ruled from 11? until 51
* Pacorus (flourished 1st century & first half of 2nd century), son of the above named and ruled from 51 AD until 78 AD

## Early Islamic rulers

* Al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, governor of Adharbayjan
* Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, governor of Adharbayjan (731-733)
* Sa'id ibn Amr al-Harashi, governor of Adharbayjan (733-735)
* Yahya ibn Khalid, governor of Adharbayjan (765-?)
* Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin, governor of Adharbayjan (835-?)
* Mankjur al-Farghani (837-?)

## Sajid dynasty

* Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Saj, Afshin of Azerbaijan (889–901)
* Devdad ibn Muhammad, Emir of Azerbaijan (901)
* Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj, Emir of Azerbaijan (901–928)
* Subuk, Emir of Azerbaijan (919–922)
* Abu'l-Musafir al-Fath, Emir of Azerbaijan (928–929)

## 10th century governors

* Wasif al-Shirvani
* Muflih al-Saji (c. 929–935)
* Daysam ibn Ibrahim al-Kurdi (ca. 937/8–942)
* Abu Mansur Muhammad

## Sallarid dynasty

* Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (919–941)
* Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (941/2–949)
* Muhammad ibn Musafir, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–953)
* Marzuban ibn Muhammad, ruler of Azerbaijan (949–957)
* Justan I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–960)
* Ismail ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan (960–?)
* Ibrahim I ibn Marzuban I, ruler of Azerbaijan (957–979)
* Nuh ibn Wahsudan, ruler of Azerbaijan
* Marzuban II ibn Ismail, ruler of Azerbaijan

## Golden Horde governor of Azerbaijan (claimant)

* Chormaqan 1230 - 1241
* Baiju Noyan 1241 - 1260
* Shiramun 1260 -

## Timurid governors of Azerbaijan

* Miran Shah

## Safavid governors of Azerbaijan

* Haqqverdi Sultan ?-1593
* Farhad Khan Qaramanlu (1593)
* Zu'l Fiqar Qaramanlu
* Shahbandeh Beg Torkman (1st term)
* Qarachaqay Khan (1618-1620)
* Shahbandeh Beg Torkman (2nd term)
* Rustam Khan (1632–1633)
* Bijan Beg
* Aliqoli Khan
* Vakhtang VI of Kartli
* Prince Bakar of Kartli
* Safiqoli Khan Ziyadoghlu Qajar (aka Aliqoli Khan)
* Mohammad-Ali Khan of Tabriz (1719-1720)
* Mikhri (Mehdi?) Khan

## Qajar governors of Azerbaijan

* Abbas Mirza (1798-?)
* Djahangir Mirza
* Fereydoon Mirza (1831-?)
* Nosrat-od-Dowleh Firouz Mirza (1837-1850)
* Bahman Mirza Qajar (1841-?)
* Mehdi Qoli Hedayat (1908-1911)

## Pahlawi governors of Azerbaijan

* Mozaffar Alam (1950-?)
* Mohsen Rais (1958-1960)