sentences:  Panah Ali's paternal great grandfather and namesake Panah Ali Beg served at the headquarters of the governors ("beglarbegs") of the Karabakh-Ganja province in the early 17th century, at the time when the region's was directly controlled by the Safavid Empire of Iran.He soon retired, married a woman from the Javanshir clan of Karabakh and had a son by the name of Ali "(nicknamed Sarija Ali)".They lived in their estate located in Arasbar (Arasbaran) (present-day Khojavend and Agdam rayons of Azerbaijan) but also owned land in Tartar and the northern shores of the Aras River.