Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)

The Russo-Persian War of 1804 to 1813 was one of several wars between Qajar Iran and Imperial Russia, and began as a dispute over territory in the Caucasus. Fath Ali Shah Qajar wanted to consolidate the northern reaches of his kingdom, in what is now Georgia, which Tsar Paul I had annexed some years before. Tsar Alexander I, also new on his throne, was equally set on controlling the disputed lands. The war ended in 1813 with the Treaty of Gulistan, under which Iran ceded Georgia to Russia along with Dagestan, most of modern Azerbaijan and small parts of Armenia. The war sits within the wider Russian conquest of the Caucasus and the period of the Napoleonic Wars.