King of Kartl George XI [Gurgin Khan] Bagration

In 1704, he was appointed beglerbeg of the Kandahar province by the Safavid Shah, while he was already governor of Kerman. . Gorgin Khan, once establishedl in Kandahar, met his match in the person of Mir Wais, the head of the Hotaki tribe of the Afghan tribe the Gilzis who also mayor of the city]...[Mir Wais must have been livid when in 1706 he was relieved of his supervisory post. Gorgin Khan's behavior in Kandahar only exacerbated the situation, as his harsh rule antagonized the Sunni Afghans... His soldiers misbehaved towards the local population: he sequestered goods, commandeered Afghan girls and women and raised taxes. Gorgin Khan is said to have partied on 8 June I709, the day of the murder of the caliph Omar Mo'men Kermani. There are also stories of how the Shi,ite Georgians would bring pigs into mosques and drink inside, how they would abuse underage girls aged nine to ten years old to to the point of killing them, and then would dump the bodies at their parents' homes. The resentful Afghans sent several complaints to Isfahan, but these were intercepted by Gorgin Khan's men at court and thus never reached the shah. In the end, the Afghans acted on their own by rebelling against their Georgian over lords. This gave Gorgin Khan an excuse to arrest Mir Wais and to send him to Isfahan, urging the shah to get rid of him or at least never to allow him to return to Kandahar. While in Isfahan, Mir Wais, through skillful flattery and substantial bribes, managed to rehabilitate himself and to persuade the shah that Gorgin Khan was untrustworthy and intended to turn Kandahar into an autonomous region ruled by himself, and that Persia was threatened by an impending coalition between the Russians and the Georgians. Sent back to Kandahar to serve as a shadow administrator, Mir Wais rallied his people against the Georgians. Matters came to a head when Gorgin Khan demanded Mir Wais's own daughter. Gorgin Khan met his death at the hands of the Afghans in 1709, either killed in his tent, after which the Afghans took Kandahar and massacred the city's Georgian garrison, or hacked down after the Afghans invited him and his entourage to a banquet. Upon Gorgin Khan's death, Kay Khosrow (Khosrow Khan) https://www.geni.com/people/Kay-Khosrow Bagrationi/6000000021614418167?through=6000000017602449365 was appointed Sepahsalar and Wali of Georgia and he was sent to Kandahar to avenge his uncle's death.] ref : Academia.edu - Rudolph Matthee, Kandahar.

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[by the early 18th century the state was in serious decline and the reigning shah, Sultan Husayn, was a weak ruler. When Sultan Husayn attempted to quell a rebellion by the Ghilzai Afghans in Kandahar, the governor he sent (Gurgin Khan) was killed. ]http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nader_Shah

Contemporary of Shah Tahmasp II Safavi - Vakhtang VI (alias Hossein Gholi Khan) and David Bek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit_Bek )
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/George_XI_of_Kartli

A document says that he died in 1729 [ page 135 of file:///home/chronos/u-3aee9e93dd168931eff71ff99c2a73e8c9317d8b/Downloads/1019-_Turkoloji_Tarix_Qarabaghname_Perviz_Zere_Shahmeresi_Fars_Ebced_Urmu_Turuz_2014.pdf]

GURGIN KHAN - Shahnavaz Khan - Constantin - see page 129 of file:///home/chronos/u-3aee9e93dd168931eff71ff99c2a73e8c9317d8b/Downloads/1019-_Turkoloji_Tarix_Qarabaghname_Perviz_Zere_Shahmeresi_Fars_Ebced_Urmu_Turuz_2014.pdf

Safavid governor of Qandahar until 1709 when he was overthrown by Mīrwais Khān Hotak - a Ghilzai Afghan notable -, Gurgin Khan was a Georgian convert to Islam, originally Giorgi XI and known in his converted state as Gurgin or Shahnavaz Khan. He was a valued gholam in the Safavid service because of his military skills and sent to Qandahar in 1704 to secure Iran's bastion against Mughul India and prevent local unrest amongst the Afghans. [ref. pages 33 to 35 of The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 7].

Gurgin Khan will be murdered after Mīrwais Khān Hotak had a fatwa set against him in Mecca. Mir Vais succeeds him as Governor of Qandahar,. Mirwais Khan is anti Safavid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirwais_Hotak

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Георгий XI (груз. გიორგი XI, шах Наваз-хан) (1651 — 21 апреля 1709) — 91-й царь Грузии (Картли) (1676—1688, 1692—1695, 1703—1709). Сын царя Картли Вахтанга V. Из династии Багратионов, в 30-м поколении от Ашота I Куропалата. Погиб в Афганистане, где находился с военной миссией по поручению шаха Персии из династии Сефевидов.

Был женат первым браком на Тамаре (? — 1683), дочери князя Давида Багратиони-Давитишвили, в этом браке родились:

Баграт (? — 1694/1695), царевич
Мариам (? — 1715), царевна, была замужем за Давидом эриставом Ксанским

Вторым браком был женат на Хорешан (? — 1695), дочери князя Георгия Микеладзе, в этом браке родилась

Родами, царевна, была замужем за царем Имерети Георгием VII (1707—1720)

Царь Картли с 1676 года по 1688 год, затем с 1692 года по 1695 год и с 1703 года 1709 год.
За сопротивление Иранским властям был сослан в Иранский Афганистан, где и погиб в битве с племенами гильзаев.