{"title":"Nādir Šāh’s Decree Issued at the Request of the Armenian Merchants of Agulis","authors":"Kristine Kostikyan, Gor Margaryan","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article presents the publication of an unknown decree of Nādir Šāh issued in December 1742/January 1743 at the request of the Armenian merchants of Agulis. It examines the taxes levied from the merchants and the ways of tax extortion and excesses committed by Nādir Šāh’s administration in that period. The article contains a short review of the historical background of the document, the economic situation in the Nādir Šāh’s empire including Agulis.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iran and the Caucasus","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802004","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The article presents the publication of an unknown decree of Nādir Šāh issued in December 1742/January 1743 at the request of the Armenian merchants of Agulis. It examines the taxes levied from the merchants and the ways of tax extortion and excesses committed by Nādir Šāh’s administration in that period. The article contains a short review of the historical background of the document, the economic situation in the Nādir Šāh’s empire including Agulis.
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Iran and the Caucasus, as of volume 6 published by Brill, is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal and appears in two issues per year. Iran and the Caucasas is a journal promoting original, innovative, and meticulous research on the anthropology, archaeology, culture, economics, folklore, history (ancient, mediaeval and modern), linguistics, literature (textology), philology, politics, and social sciences of the region. Accepting articles in English, French, and German, Iran and the Caucasus publishes lengthy monographic essays on path-breaking research, synoptic essays that inform about the field and region, as well as book reviews that highlight and analyse important new publications.