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Kalbali Khan

Also known as Kalbali Khan Kangarlu

Kalbali Khan was a khan of Nakhichevan of the Kangarlu tribe in the late eighteenth century. He resisted Agha Muhammad Khan Qajar's efforts to reassert Iranian control over the South Caucasus khanates, and the Qajar ruler had him blinded. His family continued to rule Nakhichevan until the Russian conquest of 1828.

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