According to oral tradition, Tarki sits on the site of Samandar , the capital of Khazaria until the early 8th Century . In 1396 , Tamerlane passed through Tarki on a military campaign. In the late 15th century, Tarki became the capital of the Shamkhal s who held sway in Dagestan until the early 18th Century , when their territory contracted to a tiny strip of the Caspian shore.
The Shamkhals submitted to Russian authority more than once, first in the early 17th Century , then during the Persian Expedition Of Peter The Great and Persian Expedition Of 1796 . As early as 1559 , Ivan The Terrible had a Russian fort constructed there. In 1668 the town was sacked by the Cossacks of Stepan Razin .
The town finally passed to Russia under the terms of the Treaty Of Golestan (1813). Eight years later, the Russians built Burnaya Fortress there, which was succeeded by Fort-Petrovsk, now known as Makhachkala .
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