Shirvan

thumb|250px|Safavid conquest of Shirvan|The battle between the young Safavid ruler, [[Ismail I, and Farrukh Yasar, last independent ruler of Shirvan. Unknown artist (1541), Persian miniature currently preserved in the British Library, London.]] thumb|250px|Location of Shirvan from a geographic map of the Caucasus by German cartographer Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke (1804), [[Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.]]

Shirvan (from Classical Persian or ; ; Tat: Şirvan) is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known both during the pre-Islamic Sasanian Era and the early Islamic period. Today, the region is an industrially and agriculturally developed part of the Republic of Azerbaijan that stretches between the western shores of the Caspian Sea and the Kura River, centered on the Shirvan Plain.