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Mansur Khan (qollar-aghasi)

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Mansur Khan
Commander of the Gholam
In office
1663–1663
Preceded byKaykhosrow Khan
Succeeded byIsa Beg
Governor of Qandahar
In office
>1693–Unknown
Preceded byOtar Beg Orbeliani
Succeeded byJamshid Khan
Military service
Allegiance Safavid Iran

Gorjasbi Beg,[a] better known as Mansur Khan, was a Safavid military commander, royal gholam, and official from the Georgian Orbeliani clan. He served as the commander of the empire's élite gholam corps (qollar-aghasi) sometime before 1693, and as the governor (beglarbeg) of Qandahar in 1663.

He was a son of the Georgian nobleman Aslamaz, and had at least two brothers, Otar (Zu al-Faqār) and Vakhushti, who held prominent positions like him. According to Alexander Orbeliani (1802–1869), he had one more brother named Kaykhosrow.

Notes

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  1. ^ Also spelled as "Garjasb", "Karjasi", or "Garjasi".

Sources

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  • Floor, Willem (2001). Safavid Government Institutions. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. p. 173. ISBN 978-1568591353.
  • Floor, Willem M. (2008). Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration, by Mirza Naqi Nasiri. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers. p. 257. ISBN 978-1933823232.
  • Maeda, Hirotake (2003). "On the Ethno-Social Background of Four Gholām Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran". Studia Iranica (32): 247–249, 253, 270.
  • Matthee, Rudi; Mashita, Hiroyuki (2010). "KANDAHAR iv. From The Mongol Invasion Through the Safavid Era". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XV, Fasc. 5. pp. 478–484.
Preceded by Commander of the gholam corps (qollar-aghasi)
before 1693
Succeeded by
Isa Beg
Preceded by Governor of Qandahar
1663–?
Succeeded by