Haji Chalabi Khan was an Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani people

The Azerbaijanis are a Turkic-speaking people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the neighbourhood states, Georgia, Russia and formerly Armenia. Commonly referred to as Azeris or Azerbaijani Turks , they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to...

 statasman, warlord, khan

Khan (title)

Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...

, ruler and founder of Shaki Khanate

Shaki Khanate

Shaki khanate was an Azerbaijani khanate on the territory of modern Azerbaijan between 1743 and 1819 with its capital in the town of Shaki.-History:...

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Biography

Haji Chalabi was born in 1703. He was a distant offspring of Darvish Khan, who was head of the revolt in Shaki against Safavi Tahmasib I

Tahmasp I

Tahmasp or Tahmasb I was an influential Shah of Iran, who enjoyed the longest reign of any member of the Safavid dynasty...

 in 1551. In the beginning of 1840s he participated in independence movement from the Persian rule which was started due to social dissatisfaction. Nader Shah

Nader Shah

Nāder Shāh Afshār ruled as Shah of Iran and was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty. Because of his military genius, some historians have described him as the Napoleon of Persia or the Second Alexander...

 who wanted to subdue the people of Shaki, attacked it in 1744 and sieged the Gelersen Gorersen Fortress where Haji Chalabi took refuge. The name of the fortress "Gelersen Gorersen" which means in Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

 "Come and see" derives from the historic episode related to the siege. When Nader Shah sent an ultimatum to surrender, Haji Chelebi sent a response letter saying "Come and see". Outraged shah ordered to destroy the rest of the town. After the death of Nader Shah, Haji Chelebi took revenge by going south as far as Tabriz

Tabriz

Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...

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Haji Chalabi Khan died from illness in 1755. According to other sources, he died as a result of assassination plot organized by other Azerbaijani khans. He had three sons: Aghakishi Khan, Haji Abdulgadir and Jafar Agha. Aghakishi Khan succeeded his father as the ruler of Shaki Khanate.