Aslamas Beg

Aslamas Beg (Georgian: ასლამაზ ორბელიანი), also known as Aslan Khan, was a Safavid official and military commander of Georgian origin. He served as the commander of the élite gholam corps (qollar-aghasi) in 1693-1695, and as the governor (beglarbeg) of Qandahar in 1694-1695, or 1696-1697. A scion of the Orbeliani family, Aslamas was the second son of Vakhushti Khan, the former governor of Shushtar. Aslamas's son, Mohammad-Ali Khan, briefly served as commander of the artillery (tupchi-bashi) in 1722. Aslamas's namesake grandson, who died in 1740, later served as a beglarbeg of Georgia (Gorjestan) during the reign of Nader Shah (r. 1736-1747).

Sources

• Floor, Willem (2001). Safavid Government Institutions. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. pp. 171–174, 197. 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): 249, 270.