Quba Khanate
In 1796, after the Persian Expedition of 1796 led by Valerian Zubov, most residents of Kilvar and Talabi and some residents of Garajally, about 50 families altogether, chose to leave with the troops and founded the village of Edissia (after the city of Edessa where they believed their ancestors had come from) in the present-day Stavropol Krai of Russia. In 1926, they still retained good knowledge of Tat and were referred to by the local population as "malakhantsy" (from the Tat "mal xan", i.e. "of the khan", meaning they were subjects of the Quba Khanate). According to other sources, Armenians of Edissia, along with those living in the suburbs of Kizlyar, spoke a Turkic idiom they referred to as "bizimja" ("our talk") which they adopted while still in Shirvan.