Daniyal Sultan

Daniyal Sultan was the last ruler of the Elisu Sultanate of Savakhvakho Dynasty, and belonged to the Ottoman Dynasty and Safavid Dynasty. He was born on 9 January 1803 at İlisu and was the second son of Sultan Ahmed Khan II and his Wife Tuti Bika Khanum, a daughter of Shahmardan Khan of Gazikumukh Khanate. After the death of his older brother Musa Bey, he was appointed by the Russian General Ivan Paskevich, as the new Sultan of Elisu Sultanate and ruled it since 1831 until 1844. After living for a while in Shaki Khanate, Sultan Daniyal went to exile to Istanbul in 1869 and died there in 1873. He was a good Friend to Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire. He was married with Baba Bika Khanum, a daughter of Ahmed Khan from Mehtuli, and had one son, Musa Bey, and four daughters: Nene Khanum, Begyum Bika, Imi Bika and Karemat Khanum who married Qazi Mehemed the oldest son of Imam Shamil. His descendants live today in Turkey and Germany.

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