Erivan Khanate
In the Qajar era, members of the royal Qajar dynasty were appointed as governors of the Erivan khanate, until the Russian occupation in 1828. The heads of the provincial government of the Erivan Khanate were thus directly related to the central ruling dynasty. Administratively, the khanate was divided into fifteen administrative districts called "maḥals" with Persian as its official language. The local bureaucracy was modeled on that of the central government, located in Tehran.