History of the Ganja Khanate - Hardcoverby Elgun Babayev (Author), Willem M. Floor (Translator) Although the broad outline of the history of Iran in the eighteenth century is known, it still is one of the most "unknown" periods in the history of Iran. Moreover, much of that "known" history concerns the first half of the eighteenth century, mostly regarding Central and Southern Iran. Azerbaijan was one of Iran's most important provinces, yet events that took place there after Nader Shah's