Pishkinid dynasty
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The Pishteginids (Bishkinids, Pishkinids) were a dynasty of maliks in Iran which ruled, from 1155 to 1231, Ahar and its adjacent district as vassals to the Shaddadids of Arran. The family descended from a Georgian nobleman captured by the Seljuqid sultan Alp Arslan during his 1068 expedition against Georgia and brought as a prisoner to Iran. The dynasty fell to the Khwarezmian conquests between 1125 and 1131.[1][2] The name of Meshkinshahr, a town east of Ahar, seems to have been derived from the Pishkinid dynasty.[3]
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- ^ Karang, A. A. "Ahar", Encyclopædia Iranica Online Edition. Retrieved on January 3, 2008.
- ^ Minorsky, Vladimir (1951), "The Georgian Maliks of Ahar." BSOAS vol. 13/4, pp. 868-77.
- ^ (Persian) Nobakhti Khiavi, Soleyman (2001). Khiav: Gomshodeh-ye Tarikh. Tehran: Nashr-e Ghu
