Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Меликство" in Russian language version.
In 1722 Persian Armenia suffered invasion by Peter the Great (1682—1725) and rebellion led by David Bek, an Armenian from Georgia. David, using the fort of Tat’ew as his base, established a principality, from four melikdoms. The results were Turkish invasion and the division of Persia’s territory between Russians and Turks in 1724. David’s principality subsequently fell, to the Turks, in 1730.
In mountainous Karabakh a group of five Armenian maliks (princes) succeeded in conserving their autonomy and maintained a short period of independence (1722-30) during the struggle between Persia and Turkey at the beginning of the 18th century; despite the heroic resistance of the Armenian leader David Beg, the Turks occupied the region but were driven out by the Persians under the general Nādr Qolī Beg (from 1736-47, Nādir Shah) in 1735.
